Genetic analysis of multiple myeloma DNA from two different sources present in blood samples provides researchers equally relevant cancer information as more invasive bone marrow…
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.
Latest news
Adding Empliciti (elotuzumab) to a combination of Pomalyst (pomalidomide) and dexamethasone significantly delays disease worsening or death in myeloma patients who failed to respond to previous treatment,…
A Phase 1b trial testing a combination of Reolysin (pelareorep), Velcade (bortezomib) and dexamethasone in multiple myeloma patients who failed to respond to previous therapy…
While the best described cancer mutations are in regions that provide instructions to make proteins, most mutations actually happen in the noncoding regions of our…
Updated clinical trial data show that selinexor added to standard therapies can benefit multiple myeloma patients who have failed multiple prior lines of therapy, Karyopharm…
Trillium Therapeutics recently dosed the first patient in its Phase 1 clinical trial of TTI-622, a checkpoint inhibitor of the immune system being developed…
