Risk-Based Therapeutic Strategies

Cancer J. 2019 Jan/Feb;25(1):54-58. doi: 10.1097/PPO.0000000000000352.

Abstract

Although therapeutic strategies have been adapted to age and comorbidities of myeloma patients for a long time, all patients currently experiment the same treatment whatever their genomic risk. However, high-risk patients should benefit right now from the most efficient drugs combinations. Herein, we review and discuss how to optimally define risk to adapt treatment and why a modern multiparametric definition of genomic risk is urgently needed. Minimal residual disease status will probably also take a growing place in patient's management, including in treatment adaptation. We also discuss how next-generation sequencing will definitively represent an essential tool to manage risk-based therapeutic strategies. Finally, despite an explosive knowledge of myeloma molecular landscape, targeted therapy perspectives remain poor, with only few exceptions.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Multiple Myeloma / drug therapy*
  • Neoplasm, Residual / drug therapy*
  • Prognosis