Suspected cancer: recognition and referral (NG12)
This NICE guidance outlines recommendations for children and adults with suspected cancer, including primary care investigations and referral recommendations to secondary care.
Lenalidomide maintenance treatment demonstrates significant overall survival benefit following HDT-ASCT
Meta-analysis of results from three randomised control trials has demonstrated that maintenance treatment with lenalidomide (Revlimid®) following high-dose therapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDT-ASCT) in newly diagnosed myeloma patients has a significant overall survival (OS) benefit. Published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the results of this meta-analysis, which used data pooled from the…
Guidelines for the use of imaging in the management of patients with myeloma
These updated guidelines, produced by the British Society of Haematology and Myeloma UK summarise a national consensus for the use of imaging in the diagnosis and management of myeloma patients.
Publication of new guidelines for imaging myeloma patients in the UK
Myeloma UK together with expert haematologists and radiologists have jointly published new British Society of Haematology (BSH) guidelines for the use of imaging in the diagnosis and management of myeloma patients. This comes following the recent recommendations made by The International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) and The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)…
Publication of consensus statement on the use of plerixafor in myeloma or lymphoma patients
A consensus statement identifying the best use of plerixafor to facilitate autologous peripheral stem cell collection to support high-dose therapy and stem cell transplantation in myeloma or lymphoma patients has been published recently in the Journal of Clinical Apheresis. Written by the Plerixafor Usage Working Party Group involving representative clinicians from the UK and Republic…
NICE recommends carfilzomib for restricted use in England and Wales
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a final appraisal determination (FAD) recommending the use of carfilzomib (Kyprolis®) in combination with dexamethasone for myeloma patients at first relapse who have not previously received bortezomib (Velcade®). Carfilzomib will immediately be available to eligible patients in England via interim funding arrangements through the…
IMWG publishes consensus on second primary malignancies in myeloma
The International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) has published a consensus statement providing practical recommendations for managing myeloma patients who develop second primary malignanices (SPMs). Published in the Annals of Oncology, the group reviewed the latest evidence of possible host-, disease- and treatment-related risk factors for the development of SPMs in myeloma patients. They recommend that…
Study highlights challenges associated with early diagnosis of myeloma and other cancers
A study examining the number of visits people made to their GP before being diagnosed with cancer through accident and emergency (A&E) has shown that myeloma patients presenting via this route have the highest number of prior GP visits than any other cancer. Published recently in the British Journal Of General Practice, researchers from the Universities of…
New IMWG consensus statement published on the role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in myeloma
The International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) has published a consensus statement providing recommendations for the best use of 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT in the diagnosis and management of myeloma patients. Published in the Lancet Oncology, they consider this technique to be valuable not only in the initial work up for newly diagnosed myeloma patients but also…
IMWG Consensus statement on the role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis and management of myeloma and related diseases
This paper, written by the International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG), reviews the current evidence, and provides recommendations for the optimal use of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis and management of multiple myeloma and related diseases, including smouldering myeloma and solitary plasmacytoma.