ECOG Performance Status
The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status is a scale used to assess how a patient’s disease is progressing, assess how the disease affects the daily living abilities of the patient, and determine appropriate treatment and prognosis.
Brief Fatigue Inventory
The Brief Fatigue Inventory is a simple yet sensitive tool that allows the severity and impact of cancer-related fatigue to be assessed.
Supportive care
No publications this month related to supportive care in myeloma
General
Panobinostat Approved for Multiple Myeloma. [No authors listed. Cancer Discov. 2015 Mar 23. [Epub ahead of print]. American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2014: highlights in multiple myeloma. Glavey SV et al. Expert Rev Hematol. 2015 Mar 24:1-3. [Epub ahead of print]. Recent advances in multiple myeloma. Kohgo Y et al. Int J Clin Oncol. 2015 Mar 20. [Epub ahead of print]. Patterns of total cost…
Current treatments
Phase I/II study of melphalan, prednisone and lenalidomide combination for patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who are not candidates for stem cell transplantation. Roy V et al. Blood Cancer J. 2015 Mar 20;5:e294. doi: 10.1038/bcj.2015.23. Phase III trial of bortezomib, cyclophosphamide, dexamethasone (VCD) versus bortezomib, doxorubicin, dexamethasone (PAd) in newly-diagnosed myeloma. Mai EK et al. Leukemia. 2015 Mar 19. doi: 10.1038/leu.2015.80. [Epub…