New, next-generation targeted treatment strategies are required to improve outcomes in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). Monoclonal antibodies, cell signaling inhibitors, and selective therapies targeting the bone marrow microenvironment have…
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a B-cell malignancy characterized by the clonal proliferation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow and the development of osteolytic bone lesions. MM has emerged…
New treatment options for patients with myeloma have helped to change the natural history of this disease, even in the context of relapsed disease. For standard-risk patients, doublet-based therapy may…
Prospective trials comparing tandem autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) with ASCT followed by allogeneic stem cell transplantation (AlloSCT) have shown mixed results with regard to progression-free and overall survival rates….
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a neoplasm typical of the elderly, with median age at diagnosis of 70 years, and approximately 65% of patients older than 65 years. Many advances have been made…
Considerable progress has been recently made in the treatment of elderly patients with multiple myeloma (MM). In Europe the combination of thalidomide with melphalan and prednisone and of bortezomib with…
Induction regimens containing a proteasome inhibitor and/or immunomodulatory agent with dexamethasone result in rapid disease control before autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). ASCT followed by consolidation and/or maintenance further improves…
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a tumor of monoclonal plasma cells, which produce a monoclonal antibody and expand predominantly in the bone marrow. Patients present with hypercalcemia, renal impairment, anemia, and/or…
Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is characterized by an M spike less than 3 g/dL and a bone marrow containing fewer than 10% plasma cells without evidence of CRAB (hypercalcemia,…
Kenneth C. Anderson, MD, Editor Remarkable progress has been achieved in our understanding of the biology and pathogenesis of multiple myeloma in its bone marrow microenvironment. Novel agents, including immunomodulatory…
