Diagnosis of muliple myeloma / Robert A. Kyle and Daniel E. Bergsagel -- Epidemiology of multiple myeloma and related disease / Brian G. M. Durie -- Characterization of the myeloma clone / Robert A. Vescio and James R. Berenson -- Oncogenesis of multiple myeloma / Johannes Drach, Sonja Seidl, Jutta Ackermann, and Hannes Kaufmann -- Cytokines in multiple myeloma / John De Vos and Bernard Klein -- Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance / Robert A. Kyle -- Tumor burden : staging and prognostic factors / Douglas E. Joshua -- Treatment of multiple myeloma / Meletios A. Dimopoulos and Robert A. Kyle -- Dose-intensive therapy with autologous stem cell transplantation for patients with multiple myeloma / Jean-Luc Harousseau, Michel Attal, and Gary J. Schiller -- Allogeneic transplantation in multiple myeloma / Gösta Gahrton, Kenneth C. Anderson, and William Bensinger -- Immunological approaches to multiple myeloma / Hakan Mellstedt, Maurizio Bendandi, Anders Österborg, and Larry Walsh -- Remission maintenance in multiple myeloma / Heinz Ludwig and Niklas Zojer -- Myeloma bone disease / James R. Berenson --- Renal diseases associated with multiple myeloma and related plasma cell dyscrasias / Alan Solomon, Deborah T. Weiss, and Guillermo A. Herrera -- Pathogenesis and treatment of anemia / Heinz Ludwig and Anders Österborg -- New therapeutic approaches to myeloma / Terry H. Landowski, William S. Dalton, and Sydney E. Salmon