Welcome, myeloma world, to the first "Acronym Edition" of Myeloma Morning.

Every major news item in today's report is closely linked with one or more acronyms. Once we realized this – and once we also realized that this will probably happen again in the future – we realized we had to mark the occasion in some special way.

Hence: Acronym Edition.

We have three brief research summaries at the beginning of today's report, followed by an extended Q&A.

The first two research summaries are mainly for readers interested in the biology of …