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Blood cancer is actually a term applied to three different types of cancer – leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. For centuries, these cancers had virtually no possibility of survival. Even as recently as the 1960s, the five-year survival rate for leukemia was 14%. By 2010, it had increased to 61%. Similar gains have been made in the survival...
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Patients with multiple myeloma are at risk of developing thrombosis (blood clots) that are associated with some newer treatments, according to two myeloma experts. Therefore, researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the University of Washington and Seattle Cancer Alliance, examined if they could identify risk factors for patients to determine who would most likely...
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Myeloma is a complicated cancer type that can be tough to find a treatment option for which patients will respond to. However, in the past several months therapeutic options for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma have taken major steps forward. This in part due to new data from multiple trials including the phase III COLUMBA...
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The Government has today unveiled plans to establish a national cancer agency, which will be led directly by experts of the deadly disease, and a $60 million injection into Pharmac. Until today, decisions about how to tackle New Zealand’s cancer “crisis” came from bureaucrats within the Ministry of Health. By December 1, the Government has...
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Close relatives of people with blood cancer are more likely to be diagnosed with the disease themselves, a major study has found. An international team, led out of the Institute of Cancer Research in London, examined diagnosis, birth and death records of more than 150,000 people with all types of blood cancer — such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma...
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According to findings from a study published in Cancer on the utilization of specific supportive care measures in older patients with multiple myeloma, only approximately two-thirds of patients received guideline-concordant administration of a bone-modifying agent. The course of treatment for patients with multiple myeloma is typically characterized by the administration of multiple lines of therapy associated with periods...
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A Phase II study of a GlaxoSmithKline drug to treat the blood cancer multiple myeloma has been successful, the company said Friday. The London-based drugmaker said it had positive headline results from the DREAMM-2 study of GSK2857916 (belantamab mafodotin), an antibody-drug conjugate that targets the antigen BCMA. It did not provide details of the data, but said...
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A combination of humanized anti-CD19 and anti-B-cell maturation antigen chimeric antigen receptor T-cells has shown activity in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, according to results of a single-center, single-arm phase 2 clinical trial published in The Lancet Haematology. The dual CAR T-cell combination resulted in a 95% response rate, with 43% of patients achieving...
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This story was originally published on Stuff “Why does New Zealand need to reinvent the wheel?” Posed by National MP Maggie Barry, that was the question at the heart of a fight to have dozens of life-extending – and life-saving – drugs funded. Emotions ran high during Wednesday’s health select committee as plea after plea...
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