Some 68 percent of Canadians would feel helpless if they or someone close to them received a blood cancer diagnosis, found a recent poll commissioned…
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Multiple myeloma patients in the United Kingdom can now potentially benefit from a new oral pill sold as Ninlaro…
MYELOMA
Stem Cell Transplants Better Than New Therapies at Delaying Myeloma Progression, Analysis Finds
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…
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…
MYELOMA
Nanoparticle-targeted Phototherapy Tested in Mice; Might Be Multiple Myeloma Therapy Someday
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…
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