This year’s meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) began yesterday morning in San Francisco.

Myeloma-related presentations were made during several sessions throughout the day.

The day started out with a session designed to better educate physicians about multiple myeloma and how to treat the disease.

Two sessions of oral presentations devoted solely to multiple myeloma ran simultaneously in the middle of the day. One of the sessions focused on the biology of the disease. The other one included …

The results of a small British study may lead to fewer myeloma patients suf­fer­ing from diarrhea while taking Revlimid.

In a short article published last week, researchers from the Royal Marsden Hospital in London report that a condition known as “bile acid mal­ab­sorp­tion” appears to be a frequent cause of the diarrhea experi­enced by some patients during treatment with Revlimid (lena­lido­mide).

The researchers also found that the bile acid mal­ab­sorp­tion and re­sult­ing diarrhea in these patients can be …

A recently published Greek study provides updated data on the sig­nif­i­cance of MRI-detected focal lesions in the spine in patients with smol­der­ing myeloma.

The Greek study confirms that having more than one focal lesion in the spine puts a smoldering myeloma patient at a noticeably higher risk of progressing to multiple myeloma.

Focal lesions are areas of abnormal cells in the bone marrow. They are not lesions in the outer (hard) area of the bone – lesions which are often …

This year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago came to an end yesterday.

The fourth day of the meeting, which was Monday, was the busiest day in regard to myeloma-related re­search. It started with an oral pre­sen­ta­tion session that in­cluded seven talks about im­por­tant new myeloma-related re­search. A poster session in the afternoon in­cluded several posters about myeloma-related re­search.

This article summarizes the most im­por­tant findings from Monday’s oral pre­sen­ta­tion session. A later article …

This year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting began yester­day morning in Chicago and will run through Tuesday.

Myeloma-related pre­sen­ta­tions were made during two sessions yes­ter­day.

One session was designed to better educate physicians about per­son­al­ized ther­apy for elderly patients with lymphoid malig­nan­cies. During that session, Dr. Tanya Marya Wildes from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis talked about how to navigate treat­ment options for older multiple myeloma patients.

The key myeloma-related re­search pre­sented yesterday …

Results of a recent Greek study indicate that levels of a multiple myeloma patient’s “un­in­volved” im­mu­no­glob­u­lins at the time of diag­nosis may have an impact on the patient’s prognosis.

The human body produces a variety of different im­mu­no­glob­u­lins, which are proteins used by the body to fight infections.  In healthy people, the blood levels of the different im­mu­no­glob­u­lins fall within certain known ranges.

Multiple myeloma patients, however, typically overproduce one type of im­mu­no­glob­u­lin, also called the monoclonal (M)-protein, which is …

One of the key presentations during the recent American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting in New Orleans was one that summarized initial results of a large international Phase 3 clinical trial known as the "FIRST", or MM-020, trial.

The trial results show that continuous administration of Revlimid and dex­a­meth­a­sone improves response rates as well as progression-free and overall survival in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients who are older or not eligible for stem cell transplantation.

Specifically, the researchers found …