myeloma

There is some really exciting research going on for MM (multiple myeloma) treatments, and maybe even cures.

For example, multiple myeloma deaths caused by respiratory distress will go back to the C00 series.

One patient, a 49-year-old woman, experienced complete remission of myeloma and has been clear of the disease for over six months.

Biogen Idec is running an early-stage trial of the drug in multiple myeloma, but Baron doesn’t meet the criteria to participate.

Here is a link to a related trial in South Carolina currently recruiting participants to examine a role for CD47 in myeloma.

Both patients responded, showing reduction of both bone marrow cancer and myeloma protein.

How many old farmers have you seen drag themselves into clinic with their 2-year bone pain that turns out to be multiple myeloma?

Typically, myeloma patients get autologous transplants (the patient self donates bone marrow stem cells) which are much less dangerous (less than 5% death rate).

Unfortunately, they discovered that the cause of the pain was that his multiple myeloma had spread and that there was really no turning back.

For multiple myeloma, the average age at diagnosis is 65 years.

My wife’s company developed a multiple myeloma immunotherapy that is for people that have had previous treatments of other drugs but then go into remission.

First noticed it in 2010 when I was researching multiple myeloma treatments for my father.

Immunotherapy for multiple myeloma developed in China: “The immunotherapy developed by Legend Biotech, a company founded in China, seems to have made their cancer disappear.

CD46 is a ubiquitous complement regulatory protein that, fortuitously, is highly expressed on human myeloma cells, making them abnormally susceptible to MV-NIS infection, syncytium formation, and cell killing." So they tweaked the virus to target CD46 which MM cells express way above normal.

As a young person with Multiple Myeloma, these articles give me hope but I know a cure is a long way off.

My best friend's father just died at 68 from Multiple Myeloma.