MCARH109, CAR T-cell Therapy for Advanced MM, Shows Potential
A new investigational CAR T-cell therapy, called MCARH109, demonstrated an ability to shrink or eliminate the amount of cancer in patients with relapsed or refractory…
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M-Power Project for African Americans Now Includes New York
The International Myeloma Foundation’s (IMF) M-Power project, which seeks to improve disease outcomes for African Americans with multiple myeloma, has formed a partnership with…
OCEAN Trial Fails to Support Pepaxto for RRMM, FDA Panel Finds
An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has overwhelmingly decided that the Phase 3 OCEAN clinical trial did not provide sufficient…
Trial to Test Abecma in Patients With Poor Stem Cell Transplant Response
An upcoming clinical trial will evaluate the CAR T-cell therapy Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucel) in people newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma who had a…
IMF Focuses on Education for Blood Cancer Awareness Month
For this Blood Cancer Awareness Month, observed each September, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) is focusing on educating people about multiple myeloma, the…
Pepaxti Approved to Treat Resistant Multiple Myeloma in Europe
The European Commission has approved Pepaxti (melphalan flufenamide, also called melflufen), a medicine by Oncopeptides to be used in combination with dexamethasone, making it…
Abecma May Be Effective Early Therapy for Hard-to-treat Myeloma
Note: This story was updated Sept. 26, 2022, to correct the fact that Abecma is approved for patients in Europe and Japan who have undergone…
Telo, Mayo Clinic Working on Tests to ID Patients at Risk of Relapse
Telo Genomics has teamed up with the Mayo Clinic to develop tests to help clinicians identify multiple myeloma (MM) patients at high risk of…
Continuous Low-Dose Lenalidomide Safe in Healthy People in Trial
STAR-LLD, an investigational continuous delivery of low doses of lenalidomide into the blood — being developed as a new treatment option for multiple…
Teclistamab Plus Darzalex Found to Ease Cancer Burden in Phase 1 Trial
A combination of the investigational therapy teclistamab and the approved medication Darzalex (daratumumab) reduced the cancer burden for most people with relapsed or refractory…
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