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Supportive care is used to improve myeloma patients' comfort and quality of life.
Myeloma patients often are affected by:
- Thinning bones
- Pain
- Infection
- Renal failure
- Anemia
- Hypercalcemia (too much calcium)
- Amyloidosis
Supportive treatments for myeloma patients commonly include:
Bisphosphonates (i.e. Aredia® and Zometa®)
- reduce the advancement of bone disease
- decrease bone pain
- reduce fractures
Orthopedic interventions
- control pain
- improve functioning and mobility
Pain control (i.e. medication, radiation, radiopharmaceuticals - Quadramet®)
Antibiotics …
Myeloma Institute
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Little Rock, AR 72205
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| Brand Name: | |
| Generic Name: | tanespimycin |
| Code Names: | KOS-953, 17-AAG |
| Company: | Bristol-Myers Squibb / Kosan Biosciences |
| FDA Clinical Phase: | clinical development halted |
Description:
A benzoquinone antineoplastic antibiotic derived from the antineoplastic antibiotic geldanamycin. Tanespimycin binds to and inhibits the cytosolic chaperone functions of heat shock protein 90 (HSP90). HSP90 maintains the stability and functional shape of many oncogenic signaling proteins; the inhibition of …
| Brand Name: | Bexxar |
| Generic Name: | iodine I 131 tositumomab |
| Code Name: | |
| Company: | GlaxoSmithKline |
| FDA Clinical Phase: | 2 |
Description:
Bexxar is a monoclonal antibody to which radioactive iodine 131 is attached, which targets a protein called CD20| Brand Name: | Mozobil |
| Generic Name: | plerixafor |
| Code Name: | AMD-3100 |
| Company: | Genzyme |
| FDA Clinical Phase: | III |
| Brand Name: | Doxil | |
| Generic Name: | doxorubicin HCl liposome injection | |
| Code Name: | ||
| Company: | Ortho Biotech | |
| FDA Clinical Phase: | 1,2, & 3 |
Description:
Doxil is a form of the anticancer drug doxorubicin that is contained in very tiny, fat-like particles.