Characteristics and Treatment Patterns of Long-surviving Patients With Multiple Myeloma: Over 13 Years of Follow-up in the Connect MM Registry.

Background: Over the last 15 years, improvements in patient management and treatments have been associated with longer survival in patients with multiple myeloma (MM). The Connect MM Registry is a long-running, US, multicenter, prospective observational cohort study of patients with newly diagnosed MM (NDMM). We assessed the demographics, clinical characteristics, and treatment patterns of long-term survivors (LTS) enrolled in this registry.

Impact of lenalidomide-bortezomib-dexamethasone induction on patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma and renal impairment: Results from the Connect® MM Registry.

Limited data exist on the effects of induction treatment in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) and renal impairment (RI), who may also be ineligible for autologous stem cell transplant. This analysis investigated the impact of lenalidomide-bortezomib-dexamethasone (RVd) induction on renal function in patients from the Connect® MM Registry based on transplant status. Eligible patients were aged ≥18 years with symptomatic MM diagnosed ≤2 months before enrollment.

The Effect of Age and Other Patient Characteristics on Outcomes Among Nontransplanted Patients Who Were Treated With First-Line Lenalidomide, Bortezomib, and Dexamethasone: Results From the Connect MM Registry.

Background: Lenalidomide (R), bortezomib (V), and dexamethasone (d) is a standard-of-care regimen in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM); however, characteristics and outcomes for nontransplanted patients receiving frontline RVd are not well understood.

Patients: The Connect MM Registry is a large, US, multicenter, prospective observational cohort study of NDMM patients.

Methods: This analysis investigated characteristics and outcomes of patients who received RVd alone or followed by Rd or R (RVd ± Rd/R) who did not undergo frontline autologous stem cell transplantation.

High-dose chemotherapy and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation as salvage therapy in primary mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumors: The Indiana University experience.

Background: Patients with relapsed primary mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumor have low cure rates with salvage chemotherapy or surgery. The authors report survival outcomes of patients who received high-dose chemotherapy (HDCT) and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) at Indiana University.

Methods: The prospectively maintained Indiana University germ cell tumor database identified 32 patients with primary mediastinal nonseminomatous germ cell tumor who progressed after first-line cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy and received HDCT and PBSCT between 2006 and 2021.

1q amplification and PHF19 expressing high-risk cells are associated with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma.

Multiple Myeloma is an incurable plasma cell malignancy with a poor survival rate that is usually treated with immunomodulatory drugs (iMiDs) and proteosome inhibitors (PIs). The malignant plasma cells quickly become resistant to these agents causing relapse and uncontrolled growth of resistant clones. From whole genome sequencing (WGS) and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) studies, different high-risk translocation, copy number, mutational, and transcriptional markers can be identified.