Multiple Myeloma

Sarah A. Holstein, MD, PhD, reviews updated treatment options for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

“What is more gratifying than people who are alive in complete remission for years?...The therapeutics are so effective and the symptoms of myeloma can be so rapidly reversed. It’s really gratifying.”

At 2022 ASCO, Paul G. Richardson, MD, dives into results of the DETERMINATION study, which examined triplet therapy with lenalidomide plus either lenalidomide maintenance until progression or autologous stem transplantation in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Comprehensive perspectives on the role of bispecific antibodies in the treatment of relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

A brief review of the use of CAR T-cell therapy in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Saad Z. Usmani, MD, MBA, FACP, discusses the use of lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone with or without elotuzumab for newly diagnosed, high-risk multiple myeloma.

Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, highlights how future research efforts in multiple myeloma are likely to focus on chemotherapy-free regimens and minimal residual disease detection.

At 2022 ASCO, Paul G. Richardson, MD, reviewed the rationale of the phase 3 DETERMINATION study that set out to determine the benefit of lenalidomide maintenance with or without autologous stem transplantation in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Moving to the last patient profile, expert panelists discuss a patient with triple-class refractory multiple myeloma managed with BCMA-targeting bispecific therapy.

Shared insight on the selection of therapy for patients with transplant-ineligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma and high-risk cytogenetics.

Patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least 4 prior lines of therapy might benefit from treatment with talquetamab, which was granted breakthrough therapy designation by the FDA.

A phase 2 study investigated the use of cord blood–derived natural killer cells plus elotuzumab, lenalidomide, and melphalan with autologous stem cell transplant for patients with high-risk multiple myeloma.

Expert panelists consider which regimen they would use, and for what duration, in the setting of transplant-ineligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

The panel moves on to review the profile of a patient with transplant-ineligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma managed with dara-Rd on the MAIA trial.

Amrita Y. Krishnan, MD, spoke about where future research in multiple myeloma is headed and a take-home message for her colleagues about teclistamab in heavily pretreated patients.

C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, highlights the rationale for the phase 3 DETERMINATION trial, assessing the use of lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone plus autologous stem cell transplant and lenalidomide maintenance in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

Data presented at the 2022 European Hematology Association Congress demonstrated potential utility of the bispecific antibody RG6234 in a previously treated cohort of patients with multiple myeloma.

Patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma experienced promising responses with REGN5458.

Before closing their discussion on transplant-eligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, experts consider duration of therapy in this setting.

Panelists briefly review factors they use to select induction therapy for patients with transplant-eligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

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A panel of experts from Emory University review several key data updates in multiple myeloma from recent meetings and discuss how the data can be applied to clinical practice to improve patient outcomes.

Patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma appeared to benefit from treatment with talquetamab and daratumumab plus hyaluronidase-fihj.

Despite women with multiple myeloma being more likely to have certain cytogenetic risk factors vs men, sex did not appear to impact efficacy.

Shared insight on approved quadruplet vs triplet induction regimens for patients with transplant-eligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, evaluated in the GRIFFIN, MASTER and GMMG-HD7 trials.