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Blood cancer patient advocacy group presents to Health Select Committee to fund life-extending treatments
Dr Ken Romeril, chief executive, Myeloma New Zealand, is appearing today before the Health Select Committee in support of their submission asking...
Dr. Nadeem on Individualizing Therapy in Multiple Myeloma
Omar Nadeem, MD, a physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses individualizing...
Improved Clinical Outcomes in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma With Daratumumab Re-Treatment
This story was originally published on the Hematology Advisor The introduction of monoclonal antibodies and immunomodulators into earlier lines of...
New medicine for multiple myeloma shows promising results
A new drug reduced the risk of relapse and increased survival by five months, according to a recent study. The results were presented at a cancer...
Innovation Fuels Survival Gains in Multiple Myeloma
In the past 20 years, we’ve been very fortunate in the development of effective myeloma therapies and have seen remarkable progress for our...
Daratumumab cuts risk for progression in multiple myeloma
For patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, the addition of daratumumab to lenalidomide and dexamethasone is associated with a reduced risk...
Guyon Espiner investigates Pharmac: The NZ Buyer’s Club
Guyon Espiner reveals how lung cancer patients are buying cut-price drugs from India, as other New Zealanders fundraise, petition and apply for...
Early Treatment for Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is an asymptomatic clonal plasma cell disorder and is described as an intermediate stage between monoclonal...
Lenalidomide Offers Patients With Smoldering Myeloma Option to Prevent Progression
Lenalidomide (Revlimid) significantly reduced the risk for smoldering multiple myeloma to progress to cancer among patients with moderate to high...
Living well with Myeloma
This guide is written for people who have been diagnosed with myeloma. It will also be helpful for their families, friends and health professionals....
More protests likely says cancer sufferer
“More protest action is on the cards if this government isn’t prepared to give Pharmac more money “, said mother of three Joy Wilkie of Ngati...