How is MM Managed in LMICs?

By Blood Cancer Talks - Last Updated: August 1, 2023

In this episode of “Blood Cancer Talks,” Andrés Gómez-De León, MD, of Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Monterrey, Mexico; and Aditya Jandial, MD, DM, of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education, in Chandigarh, India, discuss treating patients with multiple myeloma (MM) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

The episode was inspired by an article titled “The Underrepresented Majority,” which was published in Lancet Haematology by Dr. Gómez-De León. Drs. Gómez-De León and Jandial join the show’s hosts to discuss disparities in access to MM therapy and outcomes, diagnostic techniques and transplant considerations in LMICs, the current state of clinical trials in LMICs, and more.

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Editorial Board

Sagar Lonial, MD, FACPEditor-in-Chief | Chief Medical Officer of Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University School of Medicine

Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MDAssociate Editor | Chief, Section of Myelodysplastic Syndromes, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Elias Jabbour, MDExecutive Editor | DB Lane Cancer Research Fund Distinguished Professor in Leukemia Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Kami Maddocks, MDAssociate Editor | Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine in the Division of Hematology at The Ohio State University

Thomas Martin, MDAssociate Editor | Clinical Research Director, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Jerald Radich, MDAssociate Editor | Professor in the Clinical Research Division and Kurt Enslein Endowed Chair at Fred Hutch

Laurie Sehn, MD, MPHAssociate Editor | Clinical Professor of Medical Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Centre for Lymphoid Cancer

How is MM Managed in LMICs?

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