Forecasting the Future of Multiple Myeloma
Ken Shain, MD, PhD, provides an overview of developments on the horizon in multiple myeloma.
Transcript:
I think it’s cool that there are other therapies that are hopefully going to be approved in the near future that are more—not to say traditional, but they’ll [provide] more options for our patients who are ineligible for CAR T or bispecific antibody therapy.
Secondly, most of the approved agents, from a cellular immunotherapy perspective, are based on harnessing the power of T cells, but there are other agents on their heels trying to harness the anti-tumor effects of other immune populations, like macrophages or natural killer cells. That's going to be a cool next step. [It’s going to be interesting to see] how we can use other arms of a patient’s immune system to affect the anti-myeloma activity of therapy.
Transcript edited for clarity.
Considering NCCN Guidelines to Determine Maintenance Therapy Multiple Myeloma
February 15th 2025During the 66th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition, experts in multiple myeloma gathered to discuss the impact of maintenance therapy and minimal residual disease (MRD) in patients with newly diagnosed transplant-eligible or -ineligible multiple myeloma.
