Leisure-time physical activity is associated with a lower risk for many types of cancer, including a 17 percent lower risk for myeloma. These key findings were independent of…
Myeloma
Myeloma is a rare blood cancer that begins in plasma cells, a type of white blood cell normally responsible for producing antibodies that help fight off infectious pathogens and other threats.
While myeloma treatment can drive the disease into remission, sometimes for long periods of time, the cancer will often come back after a few months or years, and additional treatments will be needed.
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Newton, Massachusetts-based Karyopharm Therapeutics has published the results from its Phase 1 trial of selinexor (KPT-330) in patients with advanced solid tumors in the…
Three organizations — CURE Media Group, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and Takeda Oncology — joined together in the Moving Mountains for Multiple…
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Company and AbbVie have announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved Empliciti™ (elotuzumab) for the treatment of multiple…
The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), an independent nonprofit based in Boston that analyzes the value of drugs and other medical services, has released a…
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. has announced that Ninlaro (ixazomib), combined with lenalidomide and dexamethasone as a therapeutic approach for relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma (MM), markedly…
