Correction to: Leukemia (2008) 22, 1767–1772; doi:10.1038/leu.2008.159; published online 26 June 2008

Since the publication of their paper, the authors have identified an error in the 5-year overall survival rates for the four risk groups, which were listed incorrectly in the abstract, in the second paragraph of the Results section and in Table 4. The correct 5-year OS rates are 95, 64, 46 and 22%, respectively. A revised version of Table 4 is reproduced below.

Table 4 Comparison between ISS and combined ICTP-ISS risk score in newly diagnosed symptomatic MM

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused.