Many of the planned studies from the iStopMM project use data on disease diagnoses in the Icelandic healthcare registries. In this paper published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, the accuracy of these diagnoses was assessed and was estimated to be 98.5%, confirming the validity and accuracy of these registries for future studies. The full article can be accessed here.
Prevalence of multiple myeloma precursors revealed for the first time with iStopMM results
March 24, 2023
Researchers at iStopMM have for the first time described the prevalence of smoldering multiple myeloma and the findings indicate that it is present in 0.5%
