Don Wright, who recently finished his 100th marathon while on active treatment for multiple myeloma, will continue running, but now with the support of the…
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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Multiple myeloma patients undergoing autologous stem cell transplants (ASCT) may strongly benefit from SELLAS‘ WT-1 cancer vaccine, galinpepimut-S, according to recent data from a…
GlycoMimetics will present preclinical research at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2017, demonstrating the potential of two drug candidates,…
Celyad is ready to enroll patients in its Phase 1 THINK trial in Rosewell Park, N.Y. and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania after gaining…
Patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who receive a combination of Kyprolis (carfilzomib) and dexamethasone have significantly better survival rates than those receiving Velcade (bortezomib) plus…
A rabbit virus slowed the growth of multiple myeloma in mice, and eradicated the cancer in a fourth of the animals, a study reported. But…
