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Black patients with multiple myeloma aren’t getting autoHCT as often as others—and the disparity has widened

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Black patients are less likely than patients of other races and ethnicities to receive autologous hematopoietic cell transplants for multiple myeloma, according to a study published in the April issue of Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma, and Leukemia.

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