The list of research areas and treatments under analysis mentioned in various sources for Multiple Myeloma includes:
Note:You must always seek professional medical advice about any treatment or change in treatment plans.
Some of the different medications being used in the research into treatment of Multiple Myeloma include:
Some of the more recent treatments for Multiple Myeloma include:
Treatments to consider for Multiple Myeloma may include:
Better tolerance with Lenalidomide: Chronic lymphoid leukaemia is a difficult disease to get rid of as patients become resistant to the treatments offered. Recently a study was held at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N. Y., for a new drug called Lenalidomide. It has been said that the new drug does not cause any nausea, vomiting and loss of hair. It is said to have mild side effects and has powerful action against leukaemia which has grown resistant to other therapies. The drug is said to alter the environment around the cancer cells, making it tough for the cancerous cells to survive. Lenalidomide has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of another cancer called multiple myeloma. In the leukaemia study, patients continue to take the drug every day until cancer is no longer detected in their blood.
Many clinical trials of new treatments for multiple myeloma are under way. In some studies, doctors are testing new drugs and new drug combinations. In others, they are using chemotherapy along with biological therapy , treatment with substances that boost the immune system's response to cancer.
Researchers also are testing new approaches to cancer treatment that allow the use of very high doses of anticancer drugs, sometimes along with radiation. Doctors believe that higher doses of anticancer drugs and radiation might be more effective than the usual doses in destroying myeloma cells. However, higher doses also cause greater damage to healthy bone marrow. New approaches to treatment may help the healthy marrow recover or may allow doctors to replace marrow that is destroyed. These approaches (bone marrow transplantation , peripheral stem cell support , and treatment with colony-stimulating factors ) are described in the Dictionary. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Multiple Myeloma: NCI)
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