Addition of daratumumab to bortezomib and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed or refractory shows promising results in a phase III trial

At the ESMO 2016 Congress held in Copenhagen between 7th-11th October, Dr Katja Weissel, from the Haematology and Oncology Department of Medicine at University Hospital Tuebingen (Germany), presented the results of the CASTOR study, a phase III randomised controlled study of daratumumab, bortezomib and dexamethasone (DVd) compared with bortezomib and dexamethasone (Vd) in patients with relapsed or refractory myeloma.