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

Myeloma-related presentations were made during several sessions yesterday.

Two sessions were designed to better educate physicians about multiple myeloma and how to treat the disease.

The key myeloma-related research presented yesterday was made public during a poster session in the evening about the biology of myeloma as well as pre­clin­i­cal and clin­i­cal studies testing new and existing treat­ments for myeloma.

During the session, research results were made avail­able for review by meeting attendees in the form …

At this year’s American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting, which will be held in early De­cem­ber, more than 100 oral pre­sen­ta­tions and about 400 poster pre­sen­ta­tions will summarize re­search focused on multiple myeloma.

Abstracts for these pre­sen­ta­tions are now avail­able.

During the next several weeks, The Beacon will pub­lish a series of arti­cles pre­viewing the myeloma-related studies from the ASH meeting that are of par­tic­u­lar interest.

Each of the articles will cover abstracts related to a specific topic, such as new treat­ments under de­vel­op­ment, current treat­ments, stem cell trans­plan­ta­tion, prog­nos­tic factors, and …