New criteria for response assessment: role of minimal residual disease in multiple myeloma

B Paiva, JJM van Dongen… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
Assessment of minimal residual disease (MRD) is becoming standard diagnostic care for
potentially curable neoplasms such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In multiple myeloma …

Response to mRNA vaccination for COVID-19 among patients with multiple myeloma

SD Stampfer, MS Goldwater, S Jew, S Bujarski… - Leukemia, 2021 - nature.com
Multiple myeloma (MM) patients are at higher risk for severe COVID-19. Their mRNA
vaccination response against SARS-CoV-2 is unknown. Thus, we analyzed responses to …

The role of B-cell maturation antigen in the biology and management of, and as a potential therapeutic target in, multiple myeloma

E Sanchez, EJ Smith, MA Yashar, S Patil, M Li… - Targeted Oncology, 2018 - Springer
B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) was originally identified as a cell membrane receptor,
expressed exclusively on late stage B-cells and plasma cells (PCs). Investigations of BCMA …

Circulating tumor and immune cells for minimally invasive risk stratification of smoldering multiple myeloma

R Termini, D Žihala, E Terpos… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - aacrjournals.org
Purpose: Early intervention in smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) requires optimal risk
stratification to avoid under-and overtreatment. We hypothesized that replacing bone …

Soluble B-cell maturation antigen mediates tumor-induced immune deficiency in multiple myeloma

E Sanchez, A Gillespie, G Tang, M Ferros… - Clinical Cancer …, 2016 - aacrjournals.org
Abstract Purpose: Reduced uninvolved immunoglobulin (Ig) levels are a hallmark of multiple
myeloma. We previously showed that B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) is solubilized and at …

Characterisation of immunoparesis in newly diagnosed myeloma and its impact on progression-free and overall survival in both old and recent myeloma trials

JLJ Heaney, JP Campbell, G Iqbal, D Cairns, A Richter… - Leukemia, 2018 - nature.com
We measured immunosuppression at myeloma diagnosis and assessed the impact on
survival in 5826 UK myeloma trial patients. Polyclonal immunoglobulin levels were below …

Recommendations for the study of monoclonal gammopathies in the clinical laboratory. A consensus of the Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine and the Spanish …

MC Cárdenas, R García-Sanz, N Puig… - Clinical Chemistry and …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Monoclonal gammopathies (MG) are characterized by the proliferation of plasma cells that
produce identical abnormal immunoglobulins (intact or some of their subunits). This …

Polymorphisms within autophagy-related genes as susceptibility biomarkers for multiple myeloma: a meta-analysis of three large cohorts and functional …

E Clavero, JM Sanchez-Maldonado… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary We investigated the influence of autophagy-related variants in modulating
Multiple Myeloma (MM) risk through a meta-analysis of germline genetic data on 234 …

Immunoparesis in newly diagnosed Multiple Myeloma patients: Effects on overall survival and progression free survival in the Danish population

R Sørrig, TW Klausen, M Salomo, AJ Vangsted… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Immunoparesis (hypogammaglobulinemia) is associated to an unfavorable prognosis in
newly diagnosed Multiple myeloma (MM) patients. However, this finding has not been …

Risk factors for infections in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients: a Danish retrospective nationwide cohort study

R Sørrig, TW Klausen, M Salomo… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Infections pose the greatest risk of early death in patients with Multiple Myeloma.
However, few studies have analyzed the risk factors for infections in Multiple Myeloma …