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…
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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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…
Researchers in the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have developed a new animal model of multiple myeloma,…
A subunit of a signaling protein may be a new therapeutic target in multiple myeloma (MM), a hematologic malignancy with high relapse rates and resulting drug resistance in patients, according…
A new class of drugs that activate a protein in cells’ endoplasmic reticulum may be used as an adjuvant therapy to treat B-cell malignancies, according to the…
Researchers at Buffalo, New York-based Roswell Park Cancer Institute revealed that knocking down individual RabGTPases (Rab) proteins in myeloma cells was sufficient to disrupt the trafficking of…
