Survival and treatments are improving for this type of blood cancer. You don’t expect to break a rib while doing light housekeeping. Similarly, you wouldn’t think your worsening back pain might be caused by a type of blood cancer. However, these are among classic scenarios for patients who develop multiple myeloma, says Dr. James Berenson, […]
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Targeted Myeloma Treatments Bring Hope for Fewer Side Effects and Curative Therapy
January 21, 2014
Dr. James Berenson discusses the importance of using maintenance therapies with limited short- or long-term side effects, in particular avoiding therapies that have long-term toxicity. Dr. Berenson expresses his excitement that within the next few years there is hope for curative therapy by using drugs that are “piggybacked” and delivered at a “thousand folds” higher […]
Experts Disagree on Role of Transplant in Myeloma
October 4, 2013
New drugs provide powerful options, but little consensus on standard treatments New York—There is a profound disagreement over whether early stem cell transplant (SCT) should still be characterized as a standard early intervention for multiple myeloma (MM), even in relatively young patients. Newer drugs are yielding response rates comparable to transplant, and this development has […]
Multiple Myeloma Survival Increased Significantly The Past 15 Years, But Unevenly Across Ethnic And Age Groups
September 3, 2013
Posted By Navneet Ramesh and Maike Haehle on the Myeloma Beacon on Aug 31, 2013 2:01 Researchers recently reported updated survival rates for multiple myeloma patients in the United States. The results show that survival has improved steadily – and markedly – from 1998 to 2009. The average newly diagnosed myeloma patient 15 years ago, for example, was about one-third […]
January 10, 2019
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