At this year’s American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) will report new progress on multiple myeloma research and will introduce five long-term patients who have benefited from novel treatments. Although multiple myeloma is an incurable cancer, new treatments used in combination and in sequence have dramatically improved the quality of life for many patients.

The five patients represented by the IMF at the meeting will be: Hardy Jones, a five-year multiple myeloma survivor who now…

On November 18, the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) announced a global research partnership that will study cancers affecting the immune system, including multiple myeloma. The collaboration is between IMF Chairman Brian G.M. Durie, M.D., of the United States; Luc Montagnier, M.D., co-recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine, of France; and Howard Urnovitz, Ph.D., CEO of Chronix Biomedical, of Germany.

Dr. Montagnier’s pioneering research, which discovered the virus that causes AIDS, will…

Swedish scientists have identified agricultural and baking occupations, among others, as having excess risk for multiple myeloma, which they attributed to high exposure of chemicals and sensitizing agents. Although several risk factors (including male gender, age, and African-American ethnicity) had been previously established, no environmental risk factors had been identified.

Nearly three million Swedish workers were categorized by occupation and age, and their health records were tracked between 1971 and 1989. Scientists tracked these records through the…

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) held its 12^th Annual “Friends for Life” Fall Gala on Saturday, November 1, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Attended by more than nine hundred guests, the event raised over $1.5 million for the organization. The MMRF, the leading global fundraiser for multiple myeloma research, directs its donations toward development of novel treatments of the disease.

Deborah Norville, host of Inside Edition and author of Thank You Power,…