Immunotherapy in myeloma Infosheet

This Horizons Infosheet provides information on immunotherapy, a type of treatment being used in myeloma.

This Infosheet covers key questions and topics about immunotherapy including:

• What immunotherapy is and how it works in myeloma
• Immunotherapy currently being used to treat myeloma
• New types of immunotherapies in development
• Side effects of immunotherapy
• Availability of immunotherapy in the UK
• How to take part in clinical trials with immunotherapies
• Future research

Key points you can read about in this Infosheet include:

• Immunotherapies make the body’s immune system work smarter and harder to kill myeloma cells
• Some myeloma treatments already in use are immunotherapies, for example, daratumumab and elranatamab
• New types of immunotherapies are being developed to treat myeloma. These include CAR-T cell treatments and antibody-drug conjugates
• Clinical trials and research are helping scientists to better understand how the immune system works, and ways to use it to treat myeloma

Immunotherapy Horizons Infosheet

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