Multiple Myeloma News
December 22, 2024
Top Headlines
Dec. 10, 2024 — A new treatment is showing promise for people with high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM). This precancerous condition can progress to active multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. High-risk ...
Oct. 4, 2024 — A new study shows strong alignment between real-world outcomes and those seen in clinical trials among a broad population of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. In the first study to report real-world outcomes from ciltacabtagene ...
July 22, 2024 — The researchers report the ability of protein 'signatures' to predict the onset of 67 diseases including multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, motor neurone disease, pulmonary fibrosis, and dilated ...
July 1, 2024 — Multiple myeloma is one of the most common forms of cancer of the immune cells in the bone marrow. It is considered incurable. Even when patients respond to treatment at first, the cancer comes back. To be able to intervene faster and on a more ...
Latest Headlines
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July 24, 2024 — A simple blood test that measures the number of lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell in the body, may predict whether people who have relapsed multiple myeloma are going to respond well to CAR-T ...
Mar. 25, 2024 — New research has found that venetoclax, a medication currently approved for leukemia, has benefits for patients with multiple myeloma when used in combination with another drug. This discovery offers ...
Feb. 9, 2024 — Researchers around the world share results from a novel model that can provide tailored predictions of how individual patients respond to different ...
Jan. 14, 2024 — Individuals with obesity are more likely to have monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), a benign blood condition that often precedes multiple myeloma, according to new ...
Sep. 29, 2023 — Patients with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow, who also have diabetes have a reduced overall survival when ...
Sep. 22, 2023 — A dendritic cell vaccine administered before and after autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) was safe and immunogenic and was associated with ...
Sep. 12, 2023 — A ground-breaking study has revealed crucial insights into the role of the histone methyltransferase NSD2 and its epigenetic target PKC-alpha in causing t(4;14) translocated multiple myeloma (MM), a ...
Aug. 31, 2023 — Scientists identified mechanisms by which some multiple myelomas become resistant to initially effective T-cell ...
Jan. 26, 2023 — Chemists designed a bottlebrush-shaped nanoparticle that can be loaded with multiple drugs, in ratios that can be easily controlled. Using these particles, the researchers calculated and delivered ...
Dec. 22, 2022 — Researchers have demonstrated that people suffering from blood cancer have a good immune response to COVID-19 vaccinations. Vaccination protects patients with B-cell lymphoma and multiple myeloma ...
Earlier Headlines
Oct. 8, 2024 — A new tool detects the evolutionary advantages of multiple myeloma cells over the different treatments available. The information it provides can help prevent the tumor from becoming resistant to ...
Dec. 20, 2022 — In our bones, specialized cells called osteoblasts are responsible for building up bone substance. A team of researchers has now identified an enzyme that controls the activity of osteoblasts. An ...
Dec. 11, 2022 — A new therapy that makes the immune system kill bone marrow cancer cells was successful in as many as 73 percent of patients in two clinical ...
Nov. 4, 2022 — Researchers have identified therapies that can help patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma who try an immunotherapy known as CAR-T only to find their cancer coming back ...
Sep. 6, 2022 — New CT technology paired with artificial intelligence (AI)-based noise reduction offers superior detection of bone disease associated with multiple myeloma at lower radiation doses than conventional ...
Sep. 1, 2022 — Researchers have published results that show encouraging therapeutic options for patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma after first-line treatment with bispecific antibodies fails. ...
June 5, 2022 — Patients with multiple myeloma who have been treated with a three-drug combination therapy have a growing number of choices for subsequent treatment. Results of a new study can help patients and ...
May 19, 2022 — A test for the common blood cancer multiple myeloma also holds clear clues that the patient has one of the most uncommon and deadly forms of this cancer, investigators ...
Apr. 7, 2022 — Chromosomal abnormalities are found in most multiple myeloma (MM) patients. While myeloma patients have generally benefited from the advancement of treatment modalities over the years, the treatment ...
Apr. 6, 2022 — Most immunocompromised people with a blood cancer called multiple myeloma benefited from a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines, a promising sign after it was shown that two doses tended to not be ...
Mar. 1, 2022 — Multiple myeloma, the most common type of bone marrow cancer in Germany, almost always returns, even after initial treatment success. In the majority of cases, the reasons behind this treatment ...
Jan. 12, 2022 — Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the bone marrow, with a life expectancy of less than 5 years post-diagnosis. Proteasome inhibitors, the therapeutic backbone of current treatments, are very effective ...