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  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,319 Views
19 Pages

Lenalidomide in Multiple Myeloma: Review of Resistance Mechanisms, Current Treatment Strategies and Future Perspectives

  • Piotr Kulig,
  • Sławomir Milczarek,
  • Estera Bakinowska,
  • Laura Szalewska,
  • Bartłomiej Baumert and
  • Bogusław Machaliński

2 February 2023

Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common hematologic malignancy, accounting for approximately 1% of all cancers. Despite the initial poor prognosis for MM patients, their life expectancy has improved significantly with the development of novel...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,862 Views
10 Pages

Whereas lenalidomide is an effective therapy for del(5q) MDS patients, a minority of non-del(5q) MDS patients achieve hematologic improvement with lenalidomide. We used computational biology modeling and digital drug simulation to examine genomic dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,903 Views
12 Pages

Efficacy and Safety of Isatuximab, Carfilzomib, and Dexamethasone (IsaKd) in Multiple Myeloma Patients at the First Relapse After Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation and Lenalidomide Maintenance: Results from the Multicenter, Real-Life AENEID Study

  • Nicola Sgherza,
  • Olga Battisti,
  • Paola Curci,
  • Concetta Conticello,
  • Salvatore Palmieri,
  • Daniele Derudas,
  • Candida Germano,
  • Enrica Antonia Martino,
  • Giuseppe Mele and
  • Pellegrino Musto
  • + 14 authors

19 April 2025

Background: In the randomized, phase-3 IKEMA trial, the triplet isatuximab, carfilzomib, and dexamethasone (IsaKd) demonstrated superior clinical benefit compared to those of carfilzomib and dexamethasone alone in patients with relapsed/refractory mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,307 Views
22 Pages

miR-22 Modulates Lenalidomide Activity by Counteracting MYC Addiction in Multiple Myeloma

  • Daniele Caracciolo,
  • Caterina Riillo,
  • Giada Juli,
  • Francesca Scionti,
  • Katia Todoerti,
  • Nicoletta Polerà,
  • Katia Grillone,
  • Lucia Fiorillo,
  • Mariamena Arbitrio and
  • Pierfrancesco Tassone
  • + 3 authors

29 August 2021

Background: MYC is a master regulator of multiple myeloma (MM) by orchestrating several pro-tumoral pathways, including reprograming of the miRNA transcriptome. MYC is also involved in the acquirement of resistance to anti-MM drugs, including immunom...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,128 Views
23 Pages

11 October 2021

Lenalidomide as well as other immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs) have achieved clinical efficacies in certain sub-types of hematologic malignancies, such as multiple myeloma, lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with a single deletion of chromosome...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,398 Views
22 Pages

Immunomodulatory Drugs for the Treatment of B Cell Malignancies

  • Nikolaos Ioannou,
  • Khushi Jain and
  • Alan G. Ramsay

Accumulating evidence suggests that the tumor microenvironment (TME) is involved in disease progression and drug resistance in B cell malignancies, by supporting tumor growth and facilitating the ability of malignant cells to avoid immune recognition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,507 Views
13 Pages

c-FOS Confers Stem Cell-like Features to Multiple Myeloma Cells in a Bone Marrow Microenvironment

  • Naoki Osada,
  • Jiro Kikuchi,
  • Sae Matsuoka,
  • Hiroshi Yasui,
  • Sho Ikeda,
  • Naoto Takahashi,
  • Yusuke Furukawa and
  • Hideki Nakasone

21 March 2025

Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common hematologic malignancy and has a poor prognosis. Although the outcomes of MM have markedly improved with the approval of novel agents, the high incidence of relapse means that MM remains incurable. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,393 Views
19 Pages

Genome-Wide Circular RNA Expression Patterns Reflect Resistance to Immunomodulatory Drugs in Multiple Myeloma Cells

  • Theresa Jakobsen,
  • Mette Dahl,
  • Konstantinos Dimopoulos,
  • Kirsten Grønbæk,
  • Jørgen Kjems and
  • Lasse Sommer Kristensen

20 January 2021

Immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), such as lenalidomide and pomalidomide, may induce significant remissions in multiple myeloma (MM) patients, but relapses are frequently observed and the underlying molecular mechanisms for this are not completely under...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,479 Views
22 Pages

TP53 in Myelodysplastic Syndromes

  • Yan Jiang,
  • Su-Jun Gao,
  • Benoit Soubise,
  • Nathalie Douet-Guilbert,
  • Zi-Ling Liu and
  • Marie-Bérengère Troadec

27 October 2021

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) are heterogeneous for their morphology, clinical characteristics, survival of patients, and evolution to acute myeloid leukemia. Different prognostic scoring systems including the International Prognostic Scoring Syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,719 Views
17 Pages

Unlocking Drug Resistance in Multiple Myeloma: Adipocytes as Modulators of Treatment Response

  • Maria Ochiai,
  • Sara Fierstein,
  • Farouq XsSali,
  • Nicholas DeVito,
  • Laura R. Purkey,
  • Rebecca May,
  • Abraham Correa-Medina,
  • Mary Kelley,
  • Thomas D. Page and
  • Kathleen DeCicco-Skinner

31 August 2023

Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable hematological malignancy characterized by the clonal proliferation of malignant plasma cells. Despite the development of a diverse array of targeted drug therapies over the last decade, patients often relapse and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,490 Views
21 Pages

11 January 2023

Osteoclasts contribute to bone marrow (BM)-mediated drug resistance in multiple myeloma (MM) by providing cytoprotective cues. Additionally, 80% of patients develop osteolytic lesions, which is a major cause of morbidity in MM. Although targeting ost...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,447 Views
15 Pages

Targeting NF-κB Signaling in Cancer Stem Cells: A Narrative Review

  • Barbara Kaltschmidt,
  • Kaya E. Witte,
  • Johannes F. W. Greiner,
  • Florian Weissinger and
  • Christian Kaltschmidt

Among the cell populations existing within a tumor, cancer stem cells are responsible for metastasis formation and chemotherapeutic resistance. In the present review, we focus on the transcription factor NF-κB, which is present in every cell ty...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,360 Views
13 Pages

Mechanisms of Immune Evasion in Multiple Myeloma: Open Questions and Therapeutic Opportunities

  • Cirino Botta,
  • Francesco Mendicino,
  • Enrica Antonia Martino,
  • Ernesto Vigna,
  • Domenica Ronchetti,
  • Pierpaolo Correale,
  • Fortunato Morabito,
  • Antonino Neri and
  • Massimo Gentile

28 June 2021

Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common hematologic malignancy, characterized by a multi-step evolutionary path, which starts with an early asymptomatic stage, defined as monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) evolving to o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,435 Views
17 Pages

Mezigdomide—A Novel Cereblon E3 Ligase Modulator under Investigation in Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma

  • Monique A. Hartley-Brown,
  • Clifton C. Mo,
  • Omar Nadeem,
  • Shonali Midha,
  • Jacob P. Laubach and
  • Paul G. Richardson

15 March 2024

Mezigomide is an oral cereblon E3 ligase modulator (CELMoD) that is under clinical investigation in patients with relapsed/refractory (RR) multiple myeloma (MM). Like other CELMoD compounds, mezigdomide acts by altering the conformation of cereblon w...