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Nieuwe behandelingen – Novel targets
Moet je Smoldering Myeloma behandelen
Diagnose van MM
Weten wannner je moet gaan behandelen

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Very low lambda

Although experts continue to debate the value of genetic markers and experimental drug regimens, Drs Ghobrial and Landgren explain that there already exists a subpopulation of patients with high-risk SMM who do warrant treatment and should be managed as if they already have symptomatic disease, namely patients with a “myeloma defining event.” These events include bone marrow plasmacytosis at or above 60%; abnormal free light chain (FLC) ratio of 100 or above (involved kappa) or less than 0.01 (involved lambda); or 2 or more focal lesions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET-CT). Bron: Moet je Smoldering Myeloma behandelen

lenalidomide and dexamethasone

One of the most thought-provoking studies that may bring about a paradigm shift compared a course of lenalidomide and dexamethasone to abstention in 119 patients with high-risk SMM. The open-label, randomized trial found that patients on chemotherapy had significantly better progression-free survival and overall survival.3 More specifically, María-Victoria Mateos, MD, and her colleagues found that “3 years after study entry, 77% of the patients in the treatment group versus 30% of those in the observation group had progression-free survival (hazard ratio

[HR] for progression, 0.18; P<.001).” Similarly, 94% of patients on medication were still alive at the end of 3 years, compared to 80% in the watch-and-wait group (HR for death, 0.31; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.10 – 0.91; P=.03.) Other clinical trials using other medications are underway to determine if a chemotherapy regimen can replace watch-and-wait bron Moet je Smoldering Myeloma behandelen

Li fraumeni

“In particular, novel immunotherapies with vaccines, checkpoint inhibitors, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, monoclonal antibodies and IMiDs, alone and especially in combination, can enhance host anti-MM immunity, even in high-risk MM,” they wrote. “These and other novel strategies are necessary to treat patients with unfavorable prognostic factors, such as chromosome 17p deletions and/or TP53 mutations, and to target specific tumoral abnormalities in subsets of patients with MM Bron: Nieuwe behandelingen – Novel targets