Lyndsey Flanagan, Aisling Coughlan, Nicola Cosgrove, Andrew Roe, Yu Wang, Stephanie Gilmore, Izabela Drozdz, Claire Comerford, Jeremy Ryan, Emma Minihane, Salma Parvin, Michael O'Dwyer, John Quinn, Philip Murphy, Simon Furney, Siobhan Glavey, Tríona Ní Chonghaile
Multiple Myeloma (MM) is an incurable plasma cell malignancy, that despite an unprecedented increase in overall survival, lacks truly risk-adapted or targeted treatments. A proportion of patients with MM depend on BCL-2 for survival and recently the BCL-2 antagonist venetoclax has shown clinical efficacy and safety in t(11;14) and BCL-2 overexpressing MM. However, only a small proportion of MM patients rely on BCL-2 (~20%), there is a need to broaden the patient population outside of t(11;14) that can be treated with venetoclax...
March 21, 2024: Haematologica