the Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) multiple myeloma “dream team” — a multidisciplinary, inter-institutional group focused on addressing critical problems in multiple myeloma prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. It aims to…
multiple myeloma. The researchers study two precursor conditions of multiple myeloma: Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM). MGUS is a pre-malignant condition in which an…
well as blocking the pathways that trigger these interactions, which include both novel agents (so-called small molecules) and monoclonal antibodies. Read more: What is Multiple Myeloma? A History of Multiple…
Correlative Science at Dana-Farber’s Jerome Lipper Center for Multiple Myeloma. A cell being attacked and killed by CAR cells. CAR T-cell therapy is a form of immunotherapy. Immunotherapies for myeloma…
has been living with multiple myeloma for 20 years. Bond credits Dana-Farber’s clinical trials for his longevity. Multiple myeloma leaders Paul Richardson, Nikhil Munshi, and Ken Anderson (left to right)…
the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber. An illustration of multiple myeloma cells. Since 2006, when physicians adopted uniform international standards for monitoring patients with multiple myeloma and gauging…
Multiple myeloma cells. Thanks to major advances in treatment in recent years, patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma today have a much greater life expectancy, even though the blood cancer isn’t…
myeloma cells, predict poorer outcome and shorter survival, says Nikhil Munshi, MD, director of basic and correlative sciences at Dana-Farber’s Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center. Some of those higher-risk genetic…
improved treatment for multiple myeloma over the past three decades. For the past two decades, much of that work has taken place at the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center and…
in multiple myeloma patients overall,” says Richardson, clinical director for the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center Jerome Lipper Center for Multiple Myeloma, and the R.J. Corman Professor of Medicine, Harvard…
…for controlling promoters and enhancers in multiple myeloma. The finding may, on the one hand, help explain why myeloma often rebounds after drug treatment (therapies that stymie just one control…
bone. Sometimes multiple myeloma does not cause any signs or symptoms. This is called smoldering multiple myeloma. It may be found when a blood or urine test is done for…
the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center and LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which had long partnered in her care. Trial participants were receiving CAR T-cell therapy,…
…College, Marathons and Multiple Myeloma What is Multiple Myeloma? Even though my dad is no longer with us, this story doesn’t have an end. Sometimes the conversations are hard, but…
MD, MPP, Clinical Director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, discussed the different ways that patients can be treated with multiple myeloma, as well as exciting avenues of treatment,…
…required in his last role. In 2014, Horn, then 50, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma—a cancer of plasma cells—after a minor slip at work sent him to the emergency room….
…in life. I quickly began an array of treatments at the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center for my multiple myeloma, a disease that was…
In a surprising rebuttal of previous findings, a new study shows that African Americans with multiple myeloma have an overall higher survival rate than Caucasians with the disease when all…
physical symptoms of myeloma develop. Now, Dana-Farber scientists and an international team of researchers have tracked the genomic changes that occur as smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) advances to myeloma. Their…
Multiple myeloma is almost always preceded by MGUS, although not every case of MGUS will evolve into multiple myeloma, she explains. Smoldering multiple myeloma, a condition in which there are…
