A solvent used extensively for both industrial as well as pharma­ceutical pur­poses may have substantial anti-myeloma activity.

This is the conclusion of a recent study by an international team of re­searchers, which carried out a wide range of pre-clinical investigations of the solvent N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP).

The scientists looked at the effect of NMP on myeloma cells in laboratory cul­tures as well as in mice implanted with myeloma cells. Their testing indicates that safe doses of NMP may have anti-myeloma activity com­pa­ra­ble to – if not better than – Revlimid (lena­lidomide). …