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A preliminary clinical study at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center demonstrated that antibody treatment could decrease by half the number of cancer stem cells, which control the progression of cancer in almost all patients suffering from multiple myeloma. The efficiency of the antibody MEDI-551 was studied in 15 patients suffering from…

The diagnosis and management of myeloma in the very elderly is especially challenging, despite improvements in therapies. A review study, “Multiple myeloma in the very elderly patient: challenges and solutions, published in Clinical Interventions in Aging, suggested ways of overcoming the difficulties to maximize these patients’ length and quality of life. New drug development has…