The 2014 annual meeting of the American Society of He­ma­tol­ogy (ASH) starts tomorrow, De­cem­ber 5, in San Francisco, and will con­tinue until next Tuesday.

The ASH annual meeting is one of sev­er­al large med­i­cal conferences where myeloma-related re­search findings are pre­sented each year.  However, from a mul­ti­ple myeloma perspective, the ASH meeting is generally the most im­por­tant of the meetings.

At this year’s meeting, for example, some 500 myeloma-presentations are scheduled to take place.  The pre­sen­ta­tions will summarize cur­rent re­search on a wide range of topics, in­clud­ing the biology of the dis­ease …

It’s July, and we have had some time to digest the findings from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting held in Chicago May 30 through June 3.

Quite a few pre­sen­ta­tions caught one’s eye.

We finally saw the results of the much awaited PANORAMA-1 study in­ves­ti­gating the efficacy and safety of panobinostat (LBH589) plus Velcade and dexa­meth­a­sone com­pared to Velcade and dexa­meth­a­sone alone.

Exciting data on the CD38 anti­bodies daratumumab and SAR650984 continued to emerge at ASCO.

Another study looked at a pro­gres­sion-free …

This year’s annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago came to an end yesterday.

The fourth day of the meeting, which was Monday, was the busiest day in regard to myeloma-related re­search. It started with an oral pre­sen­ta­tion session that in­cluded seven talks about im­por­tant new myeloma-related re­search. A poster session in the afternoon in­cluded several posters about myeloma-related re­search.

This article summarizes the most im­por­tant findings from Monday’s oral pre­sen­ta­tion session. A later article will cover the findings from the after­noon poster session.

The morning session …

This year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting began yester­day morning in Chicago and will run through Tuesday.

Myeloma-related pre­sen­ta­tions were made during two sessions yes­ter­day.

One session was designed to better educate physicians about per­son­al­ized ther­apy for elderly patients with lymphoid malig­nan­cies. During that session, Dr. Tanya Marya Wildes from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis talked about how to navigate treat­ment options for older multiple myeloma patients.

The key myeloma-related re­search pre­sented yesterday was made public during a poster session in the afternoon about studies …

The American Society of Clinical Oncology will hold its 50^th annual meet­ing May 30 through June 3 in Chicago.

Similar to pre­vi­ous years, more than 25,000 physicians and re­searchers from all over the world are ex­pec­ted to attend the five-day meeting to dis­cuss the current re­search in cancer treat­ment and care.

During the meeting, there will be pre­sen­ta­tions about all areas of cancer, in­clud­ing many focused specifically on multiple myeloma. The ASCO website cur­rently lists in­for­ma­tion about more than 60 myeloma-related studies (included under either the "multiple myeloma" or "plasma cell …

The year 2013 is likely to be remembered as a very good year when it comes to re­search related to multiple myeloma.

Previous years have witnessed re­search shedding new light on existing my­e­lo­ma ther­a­pies, as well as addi­tional re­search about poten­tial new ther­a­pies.

But, in the past, most of the im­por­tant new ther­a­pies that were being re­searched were from existing classes of ther­apy, making them less likely to offer dramatic im­prove­ments in the treat­ment of the dis­ease.

In 2013, not only was there more re­search about existing ther­a­pies, and more re­search about …

Initial results from a Phase 1 clin­i­cal trial show prom­ise for SAR650984 as a thera­peutic option for heavily pre­treated multiple myeloma patients.

SAR650984 is one of several poten­tial new anti-myeloma agents for which clin­i­cal results were first pre­sented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting last week.

The results were pre­sented by Dr. Joseph Mikhael from the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, who told The Beacon, “This drug was hands down the most promising new agent at ASH for myeloma.”

Dr. Mikhael further ex­plained, “The re­sponse­ rates were impressive, especially in …