The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) has announced that its founder, Kathy Giusti, has been appointed faculty co-chair of the Harvard Business School (HBS)…
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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Researchers at the University of Louisville and collaborators from Japan and Austria have identified a protein called AF1q whose expression may predict the development of an…
Researchers at Buffalo, New York’s Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have showed that maintenance lenalidomide (marketed as Revlimid) following autologous hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant improves…
In a poster presentation at the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago, MorphoSys presented updated safety and efficacy data from an ongoing open-label, multicenter, Phase…
The Moffitt Cancer Center has completed a Phase 1 clinical trial of selinexor combined with liposomal doxorubicin and dexamethasone for the treatment of…
The European Commission (EC) has granted provisional approval to Janssen’s Darzalex (daratumumab) as a monotherapy for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma who…
