Myeloma patient survey to inform development of personalised medicine tool
Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE) is running a survey for European myeloma patients to understand their quality of life and how this is impacted by treatment side-effects.
Plitidepsin receives second negative recommendation across Europe
Plitidepsin (Aplidin®), a new medicine for the treatment of relapsed and refractory myeloma, has today received a second negative recommendation from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). This decision means that plitidepsin is very unlikely to made available to patients across Europe. This upholds a previous negative recommendation from the CHMP, which was reviewed following an appeal by the pharmaceutical company Pharma Mar.
Myeloma Patients Europe (MPE) joins project consortium looking at the role of innovative CAR-T immunotherapy in multiple myeloma
Today marks the official launch of a new international project consortium, known as “CARAMBA”, which will research an innovative immunotherapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma, known as Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy (CAR-T). Through strategic collaboration with a wide-range of stakeholders, the consortium aims to ensure the streamlined transition of CAR-T from the laboratory through to multiple myeloma patients in the clinic.