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Three Drug Combinations in the Treatment of Fit Elderly Multiple Myeloma Patients
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 9, Iss 3554, p 3554 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI, 2020.
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Abstract
- The multiple myeloma (MM) non transplant eligible (NTE) population is growing in line with the aging of the population in Western countries. Historically, this population has been known for having a greater risk of treatment related toxicity, and therefore drug development was slow and rather oriented towards the improvement of safety profile than the optimization of disease control. However, NTE MM patients, at least for the fit/non frail patients in recent years, seemed to have benefited more from a less palliative care to improve the depth of response and then prolong survival. NTE MM being a quite heterogeneous population, there are still a number of groups of patients that are in need of more efficient therapy, avoiding unnecessary toxicity, particularly for the frail patients. The use of triplet regimen with a melphalan-prednisone (MP) backbone has long been the standard of care for NTE MM, often dedicated to non-frail patients. New standards of care, triplet, and even quadruplet combinations, are emerging on the basis of the MP backbone but also on the more recently approved lenalidomide-dexamethasone (Rd) backbone. These developments were largely possible in line with the development of antibody-based immunotherapies (IT) in MM. The objective to improve outcomes with an acceptable safety profile will see other key therapeutic developments such as the dropping of dexamethasone early in the disease course or various attempts to allow permanent treatment discontinuation with a prolonged disease control. In that context, it is possible that immunomonitoring, minimal residual disease (MRD), and genomic risk-adaptation will become key elements of the treatment decisions on triplet-based regimens.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Palliative care
Population
lcsh:Medicine
Context (language use)
Review
frailty
elderly
survival
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine
Intensive care medicine
education
Multiple myeloma
education.field_of_study
treatment
business.industry
lcsh:R
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Minimal residual disease
Discontinuation
multiple myeloma
Regimen
Drug development
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
business
030215 immunology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20770383
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cca31c62520082f0f030523eb452ff27