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In patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, elotuzumab plus bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone was associated with significant toxicity and infections.
Cardiovascular adverse events are more than twice as frequent in carfilzomib arms of randomized controlled trials in multiple myeloma, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of 24 studies.
The combination of the anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody isatuximab with pomalidomide/dexamethasone had an acceptable and manageable safety profile in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
Among high-risk multiple myeloma patients, post-ASCT immunization with the Wilms tumor 1 peptide mixture galinpepimut-S is well tolerated and is associated with promising progression-free survival.
Adding daratumumab to standard of care is a feasible alternative to autologous stem cell transplantation with standard regimens in multiple myeloma patients.
Unfortunately, while survival outcomes with novel therapies have improved, the fraction of patients with multiple myeloma who are cured of their disease remains low. Immune therapies offer the hope for further improvement in outcomes and higher rates of cure.
Among cancer patients with bone metastases, administration of zoledronic acid every 12 weeks did not increase the risk of skeletal events over 2 years compared with the standard dosing of every 4 weeks.
Results of important studies addressing the optimal consolidation regimen and choice and duration of maintenance therapy are eagerly awaited, but it is evident that ASCT is imperative in the treatment of younger patients with multiple myeloma.
Myeloma is clearly not one disease but several. In terms of treatment choices, it is increasingly evident that one size of treatment does not fit all. Moreover, as therapy is tailored to each individual patient, with the ability to mobilize and collect stem cells and retain them after successful induction/remission therapy, younger patients have choices.
Researchers were able to identify a subset of patients with smoldering multiple myeloma who have a greater than 80% risk of progressing to myeloma within 2 years.
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