Long-term CASSIOPEIA Registry results show that daratumumab maintenance supports sustained minimal residual disease negativity in transplant-eligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.
|Articles|November 23, 2020
Pharmacy Times: Week of November 23 Lineup
This week on Pharmacy Times, there are a number of important topics that will be covered and posted throughout the week.
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This week on Pharmacy Times, there are a number of important topics that will be covered and posted throughout the week, including:
- A video interview with Bruce Mueller, interim dean of University of Michigan's pharmacy school, about renal dosing for patients with kidney disease.
- A new Thanksgiving-theme episode of the Pharmacy Focus podcast that gives thanks to all pharmacists who are working hard during the pandemic.
- An article that outlines how hospitals can keep track of medications and drug shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For as long as practicing oncology pharmacists have been in the field, multiple myeloma has carried a standard caveat: treatable, not curable. Now that is changing.
Linvoseltamab drives deep, MRD-negative responses in high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma, raising earlier-treatment and payer coverage questions.
A phase 1/2 analysis found rapid, deep responses with mezigdomide plus elranatamab in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, but the small cohort and limited follow-up require cautious interpretation.
An investigational glypican-3–directed CAR T-cell therapy engineered to express IL-15 and IL-21 produced a complete response lasting at least 1 year in a child with chemotherapy-resistant metastatic hepatoblastoma.
Phase 3 CERVINO results show that monthly etentamig significantly improved PFS and response rates compared with investigator-selected therapy in patients with previously treated multiple myeloma.
EMBER-3 data show switching to the combination at progression nearly doubled PFS versus imlunestrant alone in ESR1-mutated advanced breast cancer.
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