Multiple Myeloma

During a Case-Based Roundtable™ event, Beth Faiman, Phd, CNP, and participants discussed the use of combination therapies, including daratumumab, as frontline therapy for patients with transplant-ineligible multiple myeloma.

Patients with multiple myeloma are living longer; therefore, their lifelong treatment expenses can become burdensome.

The 4-year progression-free survival rate with daratumumab, bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone was 84.3% vs 67.7% with just bortezomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone.

The rate of minimal residual disease negativity at 21 months was 77% among patients who received isatuximab-irfc, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone.

Freshta Poupal, RN, and Frannie Bell, NP, share their experiences with teclistamab in clinical practice.

Resistance training and walking can be beneficial for patients with multiple myeloma.

Patients who received pomalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone achieved a median overall survival of 35.6 months compared with 31.6 months among patients treated with bortezomib and dexamethasone.

In a single-center retrospective analysis, the median progression-free survival among patients with multiple myeloma treated with teclistamab was 4.7 months.

Quizartinib plus standard intensive induction and consolidation therapy was associated with longer survival rates in patients with FLT3-ITD–positive acute myeloid leukemia.

The FDA has approved motixafortide in combination with filgrastim to mobilize hematopoietic stem cells in multiple myeloma transplantation, based on findings from the phase 3 GENESIS trial.

Elizabeth Aronson, MSN, FNP-BCN, OCN, discusses how the recent approvals of elranatamab and talquetamab are changing the treatment landscape for patients with multiple myeloma.

Patients with heavily pretreated relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, including those with lenalidomide and pomalidomide-refractory disease, showed encouraging responses with mezigdomide plus dexamethasone.

Black patients with multiple myeloma may be at a higher-risk for bortezomib-induced peripheral neuropathy compared with non-Black patients.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to elranatamab-bcmm to treat adults with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who have already undergone 4 prior lines of treatment.

Amanda Warner, MS, BSN, RN, OCN, who is manager of research informatics & real world evidence with Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, provides an in-depth look at teclistamab in a downloadable fact sheet.

Talquetamab has received accelerated approval for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Beth Faiman, PhD, MSN, APRN-BC, AOCN, discusses the growing need for advanced practitioner provider education and her role with the NP/PA center of excellence.

Kathryn Maples, PharmD, BCOP, highlights recent approvals, and updated labeling, along with drug removals, across leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.

Patients with myeloma who reported that their disease was incurable had lower quality of life. However, many patients may also have misconceptions about the curability of their disease.

The FDA has approved idecabtagene vicleucel as the first BCMA-directed CAR T-cell therapy for patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma after 4 or more prior lines of therapy, including an immunomodulatory agent, a proteasome inhibitor, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody.

The FDA approved melphalan flufenamide (Pepaxto; melflufen) plus dexamethasone for adults with triple-refractory multiple myeloma.

CAR T-cell therapy may change the treatment paradigm for relapsed/refractory myeloma.

Although many patients will eventually relapse, the first remission is the deepest, according to one expert.

The FDA has issued a clinical hold on the phase 1 MELANI-01 trial evaluating the CAR T-cell product UCARTCS1A in the treatment of patient with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to Cellectis, the manufacturer of the product.

Caregivers of patients with multiple myeloma face similar challenges to those faced by the patients themselves.