And stage IV means it's spread throughout the whole body. Multiple myeloma staging is completely different, because from the beginning, those plasma cells are basically in all the bones for most ...

When a person is diagnosed with multiple myeloma, their healthcare team conducts additional tests to determine the cancer's stage. Staging is essential for developing an effective treatment plan and ...

The prognosis of multiple myeloma can depend on the stage of disease at diagnosis, your age, and how well you respond to treatment. While there is no cure for multiple myeloma, treatment ...

The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to the oral agent OPN-6602 for the treatment of patients with relapsed or ...

Bataille R; Boccadoro M; Klein B; Durie B; Pileri A Multiple myeloma (MM) staging procedures are still inadequate for detection of the optimal therapeutic procedure for an individual patient.

Offering state-of-the-art genetic testing to patients with the blood cancer myeloma would help doctors spot those with the most aggressive forms of the disease so that their cancer can be targeted ...

A five-year study has found that adding daratumumab (D) to the current standard-of-care triplet therapy bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (VRd) produced deeper and more durable minimal ...

Treating late stage myeloma has multiple challenges. First of all, patients are usually more refractory to the most commonly used agents. And we know from old cohorts that if we see patients ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb is on course to move its BCMA-targeting CAR-T therapy further up the treatment pathway in multiple myeloma ... therapy available to earlier-stage myeloma patients.

Response of myeloma to treatment was defined as ≥ 50% decrease of myeloma protein in the serum and ≥ 90% reduction of Bence-Jones proteinuria. Differences among various groups were compared ...

Multiple myeloma is when the plasma cells grow out of control and become cancerous. It can sometimes be mistaken for other plasma cell disorders like: This staging classifies myeloma in three ...