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June 9, 2021
Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is an asymptomatic precursor state of multiple myeloma (MM). Recently, MM was redefined to include biomarkers predicting a high risk of progression from SMM, thus necessitating a redefinition of SMM and its risk stratification. We assembled a large cohort of SMM patients meeting the revised IMWG criteria to develop a new...
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This Policy Review presents the International Myeloma Working Group’s clinical practice recommendations for the treatment of relapsed and  refractory  multiple  myeloma.  Based  on  the  results  of  phase  2  and  phase  3  trials,  these  recommendations are proposed for the treatment of patients with relapsed and refractory disease who have received one  previous  line  of  therapy,  and  for  patients ...
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This article was originally posted on Cure Donna gives advice to other multiple myeloma patients about what she has learned from living with this disease and her various therapies. Cristina Gasparetto, MD: We talked about your quality of life. Sometimes patients, they listen to us as physicians, but they listen to patients more. What type of...
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Australian patients with amyloidosis face a lottery where they may be denied effective medication depending on how strictly their physician interprets the letter of PBS rules, a haematologist has told a parliamentary inquiry. Dr Peter Mollee, head of the Myeloma Service and the Princess Alexandra Hospital Amyloidosis Centre in Brisbane, told the House of Representatives...
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