In an era of new therapies with unprecedented efficacy, high-dose therapy with melphalan followed by autologous stem cell transplant (HDT/ASCT) is still associated with better progression-free…
Myeloma
Pretreating multiple myeloma patients with Ethyol (amifostine) prior to a stem cell transplant significantly reduces the transplant therapy’s gastrointestinal toxicity without compromising its efficacy, a…
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and Karyopharm Therapeutics are hoping that 2018 will be as momentous a year as 2017 in their collaborative effort to develop…
Animal studies have shown that a new treatment strategy using phototherapy might be used to treat inaccessible cancers, including multiple myeloma. The therapy makes use…
Multiple myeloma patients who received several prior lines of therapy showed promising response rates when treated with a combination of Karyopharm Therapeutics‘Â selinexor…
A Phase 1 clinical trial that uses the gene editing tool CRISPR to engineer multiple myeloma cellular immunotherapy will soon be underway at the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration will give priority review to Darzalex (daratumumab) as an add-on to standard treatments for multiple myeloma patients who cannot…
A single injection of a new drug combination leads to faster and more effective harvesting of blood stem cells from bone marrow donors, a new mouse…
The first patient has been dosed in a Phase 1 trial of P-BCMA-101, a new, more powerful type of CAR T-cell therapy to fight multiple…
Gamida Cell is enrolling participants in a Phase 1 clinical trial of an immunotherapy for myeloma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that is based on expanding the…
