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This article was originally published on Multiple Myeloma Today ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Patients with hematological malignancies (HM), including multiple myeloma (MM), frequently suffer from immune deficiency-associated infectious complications because of both the disease and the treatment. Alarming results from China and the UK confirm the vulnerability of HM patients to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2...
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Dear All It is nice to see the days warming up even though in Wellington we seem to be getting perpetual rain. Spare a thought for our UK brethren who will be having a lockdown until Easter. My London based son has managed to flee to a Greek island and says he will look at...
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This article was originally published on The Limbic Australian patients with multiple myeloma face critical shortcomings in genetic testing at diagnosis and access to new ‘standard of care’ treatments such as daratumumab, a leading haematologist has told a Parliamentary inquiry. Professor Andrew Spencer of Monash University says the current reimbursement model is unsuited to handling...
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This article was originally published on Cancer Network Results from a study presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting suggested that radiation therapy administered to patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma awaiting CAR T-cells is safe and feasible without worsening rates of severe cytokine release syndrome (CRS), neurotoxicity, or hematologic...
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This article was originally published on Cancer Therapy Advisor As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic evolves into subsequent waves in many parts of the world, there are many outstanding questions about the outcomes of infection for patients with multiple myeloma, specifically around the severity of outcomes, prognostic factors, and the effect of different treatments....
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This article originally published on Multiple Myeloma Toady ABSTRACT Multiple myeloma is a bone marrow neoplasia with an incidence of 6/100,000/year in Europe. While the disease remains incurable, the development of novel treatments such as autologous stem cell transplantation, proteasome inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies has led to an increasing subset of patients living with long-term...
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This article was originally published on Docwire News Sarah Holstein, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Oncology & Hematology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, discusses the multiple myeloma (MM) treatment pipeline and how the introduction of these agents may change the treatment landscape. In part two of this interview...
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This article was originally posted on Docwire News. DocWire News sat down with Saad Usmani, M.D., MBA, FACP to discuss an indirect treatment comparison study which assesses DARZALEX® (daratumumab) Plus Lenalidomide and Dexamethasone (D-Rd) and Bortezomib-Containing Regimens in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Transplant-Ineligible Multiple Myeloma. To continue reading this article on Docwire News.
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This article was originally published on Docwire News Nina Shah, MD, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses immunotherapy agents in the pipeline for multiple myeloma (MM) and how the potential approval of these agents could change the treatment landscape and advance combination therapy. Watch part...
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Our Whangarei Myeloma Patient Seminar was hosted by Myeloma New Zealand and Leukaemia & Blood cancer New Zealand. During the evening, we heard from Ken Romeril (Myeloma NZ) and Dr Sarah Poplar (Northland DHB) who discussed some of the changes to come in 2020 for Myeloma treatment. This event was held onMonday 23 November1pm –...
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