The word “caregiver” usually conjures up images of hands-on support: providing comfort, helping out with everyday tasks, and managing medications. However, for those of us…
Myeloma
A European Medicines Agency (EMA) committee recommended that Darzalex (daratumumab) given as an under-the-skin injection be approved for people with smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM)…
I still remember what happened in 2022 after my mother received her myeloma diagnosis. I was sitting by her side in the hospital room.
Most people with hard-to-treat multiple myeloma who were given a combination treatment of Talvey (talquetamab-tgvs) and Tecvayli (teclistamab-cqyv) in a clinical trial were alive…
“Nobody is reading any of those essays you caregivers write,” a healthcare provider once told me. The following week, a stranger emailed me: “Your…
One-third of patients with hard-to-treat myeloma were alive and free from disease progression five years after a single infusion of the cell therapy Carvykti…
When I recently read that former U.S. President Joe Biden had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and it had spread to his bones, my heart…
A committee of the European Medicines Agency has recommended approving GSK’s Blenrep (belantamab mafodotin) in combination with other therapeutic agents to treat relapsed or refractory…
I wanted to scream at my mother last Tuesday when she insisted on skipping her medication because she didn’t feel like taking it. While she…
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee has voted in favor of Darzalex Faspro (daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj) to treat high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma…
