New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster are at greater risk for developing a condition called monoclonal gammopathy 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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Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) recently awarded $10 million to a SU2C Dream Team that wants to move the treatment of multiple myeloma from…
Researchers say they have developed a low-cost, reliable, chip-based blood test to detect multiple myeloma, which could replace the painful bone marrow biopsy. Their…
A Phase 1 clinical trial testing therapy candidate STRO-001 for lymphoma and myeloma has started treating its first patients, announced Sutro Biopharma, the therapy’s…
A new method that selects and isolates malignant myeloma cells based on their size and molecular markers enables more precise detection of chromosomal abnormalities, University…
P-BCMA-101, Poseida Therapeutics’ CAR T-cell therapy, is safe and effective in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma patients, results from the first three patients enrolled…
