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This year’s meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) was held December 8 through 11 in Atlanta.
During the meeting, The Beacon published daily updates that provided overviews of the important multiple myeloma findings presented during the meeting. After the meeting concluded, The Beacon began publishing in-depth articles about the key research findings.
This article, however, shifts the focus to the bigger picture: What were the key findings of the meeting? Were there results with immediate implications for the treatment of multiple myeloma? Did the research …
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Tuesday was the final day of this year’s American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting, which took place in Atlanta. The meeting concluded in the morning with a series of oral presentation sessions held simultaneously.
Three of the morning sessions focused on the biology of multiple myeloma as well as preclinical and clinical studies of treatment options for multiple myeloma patients.
This update will summarize the research presented during the session that focused on myeloma treatment options. In addition, it will summarize results from an important late-breaking study of pomalidomide that also was …
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This year’s American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting, which is taking place in Atlanta, came to a close earlier today. However, yesterday, the third day of the meeting, was packed with myeloma-related presentations.
Given the number of myeloma presentations made yesterday, The Beacon will summarize the four most important of yesterday’s oral presentation sessions as well as a number of the most important poster presentations in updates such as this one. Summaries of the first three key oral presentation sessions were published yesterday and earlier today. This update covers presentations from the …
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This year’s American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting continues in Atlanta. Yesterday was the third day of the meeting and the busiest day in terms of myeloma-related presentations. It was packed full of both oral and poster presentations.
There were so many myeloma-related talks given yesterday that many of them were held simultaneously. The Beacon will therefore summarize presentations from the four most important sessions in updates such as this one.
This update covers presentations from the second of the four key oral presentation sessions. An update published yesterday covers presentations from …
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Yesterday was the second day of the 2012 American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting. Although the myeloma-related sessions got a bit of a late start, the day featured a wide range of interesting presentations about multiple myeloma.
Many myeloma-related oral presentations were given in the afternoon and were summarized in updates published yesterday and earlier today.
During the evening yesterday, a poster session took place where important new research findings were summarized in posters displayed throughout a large conference hall. The studies covered a variety of myeloma-related topics, ranging …
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This year’s American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting, which is being held in Atlanta, began yesterday and goes through Tuesday.
Today’s myeloma-related presentations began this afternoon with three sessions of oral presentations. Two of the sessions focused on results from clinical trials, most of which studied drugs that are still under development as potential treatments for multiple myeloma. The third session, which focused on the biology of myeloma, ran simultaneously with one of the sessions about clinical trial results.
This article will summarize the first oral session about multiple myeloma treatments, …
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Dr. Jason Valent Joins The Beacon’s Medical Advisor Team – Dr. Jason Valent, associate staff in the Hematologic Oncology and Blood Disorders Department of the Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute, has joined The Myeloma Beacon’s team of Medical Advisors. Beacon Medical Advisors assist with answering medical questions posted in the Beacon's multiple myeloma forums. Dr. Valent is answering questions this week. For more information about getting medical questions answered in the forums, please see these instructions.
Additional Pomalidomide Survival Results Announced – Results from a Phase 3 study show that pomalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone (Decadron) extends the survival of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma patients, as compared to high-dose dexamethasone alone. Specifically, median progression-free survival was 15.7 weeks for those treated with pomalidomide, as compared to 8 weeks for those treated only with dexamethasone. In addition, pomalidomide significantly extended overall survival; at the time of the analysis, median overall survival was not yet reached for those treated with pomalidomide and 34 weeks for those treated with dexamethasone alone. Additional results will be presented at the upcoming American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting. For more information, see the ASH abstract and the Beacon news article about the initial – less detailed – announcement of the recent pomalidomide survival findings.
Wogonin May Be Active Against Multiple Myeloma – Results of a recent Chinese study indicate that the compound wogonin may be effective against multiple myeloma. Wogonin is found in the traditional herb baikal skullcap, also known as Chinese skullcap, and has been shown to inhibit cell growth and trigger cell death in a variety of cancer cell lines. In the current study, Chinese researchers showed that wogonin triggers cancer cell death in human myeloma cell lines. For more information, please see the study in the journal Life Sciences (abstract).
Aspartame May Increase Men’s Risk Of Developing Myeloma – Results of a recent study indicate that men who drink more than one aspartame-containing diet soda per day have an increased risk of developing multiple myeloma, compared to men who do not drink diet soda. The researchers did not observe the same increased risk among women. Aspartame is a common artificial sweetener. It is the active ingredient in the branded artificial sweetener NutraSweet. For more information, please see the study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (abstract).

