Categories Multiple Myeloma

Benefits of CELMoDs over IMiDs in multiple myeloma

Benefits of CELMoDs over IMiDs in multiple myeloma Sagar Lonial, MD, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, comments on the differences between cereblon E3 ligase modulators (CELMoDs) including iberdomide and CC-92480 and immunomodulatory imide drugs (IMiDs) in the treatment of multiple myeloma. Whilst these compounds appear structurally similar to IMiDs, they are significantly […]

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Why more people are surviving blood cancer | Dr. Aaron Schimmer on CBC's Metro morning

Why more people are surviving blood cancer | Dr. Aaron Schimmer on CBC's Metro morning Precision medicine is helping more people survive blood cancer, and the future looks even brighter. Find out why from Dr. Aaron Schimmer, acute leukaemia physician and director of research at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, in conversation with Matt Galloway of […]

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Caring for older adults with blood cancers | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Caring for older adults with blood cancers | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute In this video, Dr. Tammy Hsieh describes the role she plays as a geriatrician in the Older Adult Hematologic Malignancy Program at Dana-Farber. Through this program, Dr. Hshieh co-manages a patient’s care with Dana-Farber’s oncologists, and helps identify and manage an older patient’s medical, […]

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Immunotherapy for Multiple Myeloma

Immunotherapy for Multiple Myeloma In this segment, Keith Stewart, MB, ChB; Ivan M. Borrello, MD; Gareth Morgan, MD, PhD; Sagar Lonial, MD; Thomas G. Martin, MD; and Saad Z. Usmani, MD, consider the potential of immunotherapy in multiple myeloma, as a result of emerging data that suggest the effectiveness of using checkpoint inhibitors for the […]

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Horizon scan: multiple myeloma treatment landscape

Horizon scan: multiple myeloma treatment landscape Claudio Cerchione, MD, PhD, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST) IRCCS, Meldola, Italy, discusses the changing treatment landscape of multiple myeloma. Prof. Cerchione outlines novel therapies including monoclonal antibodies, proteasome inhibitors, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies and bispecific T-cell engager therapies (BiTEs). […]

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Blood not bone marrow? Blood testing could improve multiple myeloma diagnosis and therapy: ACBD CARE

Blood not bone marrow? Blood testing could improve multiple myeloma diagnosis and therapy: ACBD CARE Monash University’s Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) Community and Researcher Engagement (CARE) Committee hosted a webinar: “Blood not bone marrow? The potential role for blood testing to improve Multiple Myeloma diagnosis and therapy” https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/blood-disease/community-engagement/upcoming-events Understanding the genetic lesions in […]

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