UKMF Guidelines Documents

One of the main objectives of the UKMF is to improve patient care by developing management guidelines. These aim to provide evidence-based recommendations on current best practice in the diagnosis and treatment of myeloma and related disorders.

 

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These guidelines are intended for the use of professionals involved in the management of patients with myeloma. They are general guides to appropriate practice, to be followed only subject to the clinician's judgement in each individual case. The guidelines are designed to provide information to assist decision making and are based on the best information available at the date of publication, but we cannot accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may have been made.

1. Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Multiple Myeloma

Compiled by the Guidelines Working Group of the UK Myeloma Forum on behalf of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH - a sub-committee of the British Society for Haematology), the Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Multiple Myeloma have now been approved by the British Society for Haematology (BSH). These guidelines have also been published in the British Journal of Haematology [Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Multiple Myeloma. BJH 2001, 115; pp522 - 540].

2. Thalidomide in Multiple Myeloma: Current Status and Future Prospects

This position paper was prepared by the UKMF on behalf of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH). It will shortly be published in the British Journal of Haematology.

3. Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Solitary Plasmacytoma of Bone (SBP) and Solitary Extramedullary Plasmacytoma (SEP)

Compiled by a subgroup of the Guidelines Working Group of the UK Myeloma Forum on behalf of the British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) - a sub-committee of the British Society for Haematology (BSH).

 

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