Multiple myeloma patients in the United Kingdom can now potentially benefit from a new oral pill sold as Ninlaro…
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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In an era of new therapies with unprecedented efficacy, high-dose therapy with melphalan followed by autologous stem cell transplant (HDT/ASCT) is still associated with better progression-free…
Pretreating multiple myeloma patients with Ethyol (amifostine) prior to a stem cell transplant significantly reduces the transplant therapy’s gastrointestinal toxicity without compromising its efficacy, a…
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and Karyopharm Therapeutics are hoping that 2018 will be as momentous a year as 2017 in their collaborative effort to develop…
Animal studies have shown that a new treatment strategy using phototherapy might be used to treat inaccessible cancers, including multiple myeloma. The therapy makes use…
Multiple myeloma patients who received several prior lines of therapy showed promising response rates when treated with a combination of Karyopharm Therapeutics‘Â selinexor…
