Myeloma UK is helping to Make Blood Cancer Visible in September. The campaign, in partnership with Janssen Oncology and eight patient organisations, marks Blood Cancer Awareness Month. It will feature a public art installation, which will help visitors to understand the experiences of people affected by blood cancer. The installation is made up of…
Bone Health and Survival in Women With Multiple Myeloma.
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Early salivary changes in multiple myeloma patients undergoing autologous HSCT.
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This month Myeloma UK published a new research report recommending that researchers, the NHS and healthcare professionals work together to improve the way that patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are utilised in myeloma research. PROMs are questionnaires that are completed by patients and are often used either in a clinical trial setting to measure the impact of a…
Results from a retrospective study have shown that prophylactic treatment with doxycycline and ciprofloxacin reduces the incidence of infection in myeloma patients following an autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT), when compared to treatment with ciprofloxacin alone. Published in Supportive Cancer Care, the results show that 53% of patients receiving ciprofloxacin alone developed neutropenic fever compared…
Addition of doxycycline to ciprofloxacin for infection prophylaxis during autologous stem cell transplants for multiple myeloma. Sivik JM et al. Support Care Cancer. 2018 Mar 21. doi: 10.1007/s00520-018-4165-6. [Epub ahead of print]. Evaluation of the relevance of surgery in patients with multiple myeloma harboring symptomatic spinal involvement: a retrospective case series. Quidet M et al. World Neurosurg. 2018 Mar 9. pii: S1878-8750(18)30458-3. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.02.184.…
The impact of the introduction of bortezomib on dialysis independence in multiple myeloma patients with renal impairment: a nationwide Dutch population-based study. Oortgiesen BE et al. Haematologica. 2018 Mar 15. pii: haematol.2017.184754. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2017.184754. [Epub ahead of print]. Multiple Myeloma Presenting as a Superscan on 68Ga-Pentixafor PET/CT. Pan Q et al. Clin Nucl Med. 2018 Mar 13. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002067. [Epub ahead of…
Extending autologous transplantation as first line therapy in multiple myeloma patients with severe renal impairment: a retrospective study by the SFGM-TC. Augeul-Meunier K et al. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2018 Mar 9. doi: 10.1038/s41409-018-0122-8. [Epub ahead of print]. The role of ixazomib as an augmented conditioning therapy in salvage autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) and as a post-ASCT consolidation…
Calcified Alveolar Septal Pulmonary Amyloidosis as an Initial Manifestation of Multiple Myeloma. Kevorkof GV et al. Arch Bronconeumol. 2018 Mar 5. pii: S0300-2896(18)30020-6. doi: 10.1016/j.arbres.2018.01.005. [Epub ahead of print]. Severe pembrolizumab-associated neutropenia after CD34+ selected allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation for multiple myeloma. Bryant AR et al. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2018 Mar 7. doi: 10.1038/s41409-018-0142-4. [Epub ahead of print]. Cardiovascular Complications of Multiple Myeloma Treatment: Evaluation, Management,…
