International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting

Identifying BCMA expression, copy number variation, and point mutations can have important therapeutic implications for patients receiving BCMA-targeting CAR T-cell therapy or T-cell engagers for multiple myeloma.

The addition of daratumumab to lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone (RVd) induction and consolidation treatment and lenalidomide maintenance therapy (D-RVd/D-R) resulted in high minimal residual disease rates and prolonged progression-free survival in patients with transplant-eligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.

High-dose busulfan plus melphalan failed to generate a progression-free survival benefit vs melphalan for autologous stem cell transplant conditioning in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma after induction therapy.

Promising safety and efficacy results were observed with the novel bispecific antibody ABBV-383 in patients with heavily pretreated relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Relapse following treatment with BCMA-directed CAR T-cell therapy was associated with poor survival outcomes in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The addition of isatuximab to pomalidomide and low-dose dexamethasone continued to demonstrate improved overall survival in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

The addition of isatuximab to carfilzomib and dexamethasone elicited a clinically meaningful improvement in depth of response in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma.

REGN5458 produced durable responses with low rates of cytokine release syndrome in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Agents with novel mechanisms, including bispecific antibodies, immunomodulatory drugs, and antibody-drug conjugates, are displaying promising results in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

Borja Puertas‐Martinez, MD, discusses the use of carfilzomib and dexamethasone with or without cyclophosphamide in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Cevostamab generated responses and was well tolerated in younger and older patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Baseline ocular conditions not related to the cornea have little effect on treatment-emergent adverse effects that may arise with belantamab mafodotin in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Treatment with standard-of-care isatuximab in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma is being evaluated in a real-world trial,

Extended treatment with carfilzomib plus lenalidomide and dexamethasone after autologous stem cell transplant improved progression-free survival over standard lenalidomide maintenance in patients with multiple myeloma.

The combination of Isatuximab plus carfilzomib and dexamethasone continued to demonstrate a progression-free survival benefit vs carfilzomib and dexamethasone alone in relapsed multiple myeloma.

The triplet regimen of lenalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone plus autologous stem cell transplantation and lenalidomide maintenance therapy significantly improved progression-free survival compared with RVd alone in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, with notable benefit observed in those with high-risk cytogenetics.

Treatment with daratumumab plus lenalidomide and dexamethasone for at least 18 months led to deep clinical responses in patients with treatment-naïve multiple myeloma who were transplant ineligible.

Romanos Sklavenitis-Pistofidis, MD, discusses single-cell dissection of bone marrow and peripheral blood immune cells in smoldering multiple myeloma.

Mattia D'Agostino, MD, discusses factors that could lead to unsustained minimal residual disease negativity in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma who are transplant eligible.

Induction and consolidation therapy with a combination comprised of daratumumab, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone allowed 70% of patients with high-risk, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma to complete a second autologous stem cell transplant.

Isatuximab plus pomalidomide and dexamethasone elicited favorable progression-free survival and proved tolerable in pretreated patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Isatuximab-containing regimens displayed favorable toxicity in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma in a real-world study.

Patient outcomes across the multiple myeloma landscape have vastly improved with the approval of multiple agents in the treatment armementarium, such as belantamab mafodotin-blmf, selinexor, and ciltacabtagene autoleucel.

The addition of ixazomib to daratumumab, pomalidomide, and dexamethasone has elicited deep and durable response rates with a manageable safety profile as salvage therapy in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Patients with multiple myeloma can mitigate the common oral and dermatologic toxicities associated with talquetamab with early intervention tactics.

Fredrik Schjesvold, MD, PhD, discusses key takeaways from the phase 3 OCEAN trial that was done in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Melphalan flufenamide (melflufen) plus dexamethasone demonstrated an improvement in progression-free survival vs pomalidomide/dexamethasone in patients with transplant-naïve relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Minimal residual disease–based consolidation therapy comprised of daratumumab, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone was found to induce quick responses and unprecedented rates of MRD negativity in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma.