The FDA approves the first anti-BCMA CAR-T Cell Therapy for myeloma, idecabtagene vicleucel (Abecma)

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   CAR-T cell therapy is a promising therapy option under investigation for the treatment of myeloma.. Different products are being studied, many with preliminary results showing high rates of response. Up until now there have been no approved CAR-T products for myeloma, however, CAR-T is now a reality after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved idecabtagene vicleucel (Abecma) as the first CAR-T cell therapy for treatment of relapsed/refractory myeloma.

Selinexor receives Conditional Marketing Authorisation in Europe for the treatment of relapsed and or refractory myeloma patients

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   The European Commission (EC) has granted conditional marketing authorization for selinexor, a first-in-class, oral Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) medicine, in combination with dexamethasone for the treatment of myeloma in adult patients who have received at least four prior therapies and whose disease is refractory to at least two proteasome inhibitors, two immunomodulatory agents, and an anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody, and who have demonstrated disease progression on the last therapy.

The Reality of CAR T-cell Therapy: Am I Eligible?

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   Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T-cell) therapy is a form of immunotherapy that is currently being investigated in clinical trials for the treatment of myeloma. Immunotherapy works by using your immune system to fight cancer. In CAR-T-cell treatment, a type of immune cell, known as T cells, are genetically programmed with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) protein that enables them to recognise and destroy cancerous myeloma cells in your body.

The FDA approves melphalan flufenamide for patients with relapsed or refractory myeloma

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    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved melphalan flufenamide (PEPAXTO®), also known as melflufen, in combination with dexamethasone, for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory myeloma, who have received at least four prior lines of therapy and whose disease is refractory to at least one proteasome inhibitor, one immunomodulatory agent, and one CD38-directed monoclonal antibody.