MULTIPLE MYELOMA

Genetic testing may improve treatment for multiple myeloma by helping oncologists identify patients at risk for developing more aggressive disease.

Sagar Lonial, MD, professor, School of Medicine, executive vice chair, Department of Hematology & Medical Oncology, chief medical officer, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, discusses the ELOQUENT-2 study in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Philip McCarthy, MD, professor of oncology, director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Center, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses the toxicities associated with lenalidomide for multiple myeloma in the CALGB 100104 study.

Sarah Holstein, MD, PhD, assistant professor of oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses a randomized study that compared lenalidomide with placebo for patients with multiple myeloma, following a single autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT).

Almost 10 years following a study that proved intraperitoneal (IP), or abdominal, chemotherapy, along with intravenous (IV) therapy, may add 16 months or more to the lives of women with ovarian cancer, less than half of these patients at US hospitals receive this type of treatment

Ravi Vij, MD, associate professor of medicine, Division of Oncology, Section of Bone Marrow Transplant, Washington University School of Medicine, discusses the monoclonal antibody daratumumab for the treatment of patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma.

The approval of carfilzomib (Kyprolis) was recently expanded by the FDA to include relapsed multiple myeloma patients who have received at least one to three previous lines of therapy.

A supplemental new drug application (sNDA) was recently submitted for carfilzomib (Kyprolis) in combination with dexamethasone for patients who have relapsed multiple myeloma, following previous treatment with at least one therapy.

Data from a phase I/II single-arm trial of the NY-ESO-1 T-Cell Receptor (TCR) therapy, recently published in Nature Medicine, is the first to show feasibility and antitumor responses in patients who have multiple myeloma.

Peter Voorhees, MD, associate professor, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, Clinical Research, Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma Program, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses a phase II study examining daratumumab for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.

Venetoclax has demonstrated promising efficacy and a tolerable safety profile as monotherapy and in combinations for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma

Jesus G. Berdeja, MD, director of Myeloma Research, senior investigator, Hematologic Malignancies Principal Investigator, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses a phase I/II study of the combination of panobinostat and carfilzomib in patients with relapsed or relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

CTL019 demonstrated intriguing antitumor activity in a small study of patients with refractory multiple myeloma.

Monotherapy with daratumumab demonstrated promising overall survival and objective response rates in patients with double-refractory multiple myeloma.

Treatment with elotuzumab in combination lenalidomide and dexamethasone prolonged remission by 4.5 months in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma when compared with lenalidomide and dexamethasone alone.

Sundar Jagannath, MD, director of the multiple myeloma program, professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology), Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses patient selection for the treatment of myeloma, especially relapsed myeloma.

MedImmune Limited, a subsidiary of AstraZeneca PLC, and Celgene International II Sàrl, a subsidiary of Celgene Corporation, have formed a strategic collaboration for the development and commercialization of AstraZeneca’s anti-programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) agent MEDI4736.

The FDA has issued a label update for pomalidomide (Pomalyst) plus low-dose dexamethasone to include data from the phase III MM-003 study.

Sundar Jagannath, MD, director of the multiple myeloma program, professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology), Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discusses advances in the management of relapsed multiple myeloma.

Current approaches to the management of multiple myeloma (MM), in particular the introduction of proteasome inhibitors (PIs) and immunomodulatory agents (IMiDs), have improved the survival of patients.

Novel combinations and immunotherapies have significantly expanded treatment options for myeloma. Numerous studies, including the ASPIRE and ELOQUENT-2 trials, have shown positive results for triple drug combinations.

The treatment options for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma are expanding rapidly, notably through clinical trial evidence supporting a number of three-drug combination regimens.

Carfilzomib (Kyprolis) doubled progression-free survival (PFS) versus bortezomib (Velcade) in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma in the phase III ENDEAVOR trial.

The FDA has approved panobinostat (Farydak) in combination with bortezomib (Velcade) and dexamethasone for patients with previously treated multiple myeloma.

Lenalidomide (Revlimid) plus dexamethasone has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of newly diagnosed patients with multiple myeloma who are not candidates for stem cell transplant, based on findings from the phase III FIRST trial.