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Saad Usmani, MD, on Daratumumab as Monotherapy for Multiple Myeloma

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

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For a heavily pretreated multiple myeloma population, daratumumab as a monotherapy showed meaningful, durable activity with deep responses and a favorable safety profile. Saad Usmani, MD, of the Levine Cancer Institute, provides the highlights of this study on the first monoclonal antibody to show promise in multiple myeloma (Abstract LBA8512).



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