The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) has announced new funding for the first comprehensive screening study that aims to prevent myeloma before it develops. The funded study, titled “iStopMM (Iceland…
A preliminary clinical study at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center demonstrated that antibody treatment could decrease by half the number of cancer stem cells, which…
The diagnosis and management of myeloma in the very elderly is especially challenging, despite improvements in therapies. A review study, “Multiple myeloma in the very…
A research team led by William Matsui, MD, and Carol Ann Huff, MD, with the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, has found that MedImmune’s novel MEDI-551 antibody treatment…
Advocates working to raise awareness and funds for multiple myeloma successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and a documentary about the climb premiered last month at the Eden…
A screening study — the largest of its kind for myeloma — hopes to find a way to prevent myeloma before it develops. The study, called iStopMM…