Dr. Voorhees on Treatments for Patients With Relapsed Multiple Myeloma

Peter Voorhees, MD, physician, Levine Cancer Institute, discusses treatments for patients with relapsed multiple myeloma.

There are a lot of available options for patients with relapsed multiple myeloma, states Voorhees. At this point, triplet therapies have outperformed doublets in the frontline setting. An example of this would be the lenalidomide (Revlimid) dexamethasone triplets.

The other thing that is important to recognize, says Voorhees, is that avoiding toxicity in frail patients. The monoclonal antibodies elotuzumab (Empliciti) and daratumumab (Darzalex) are easily added to backbone doublets of lenalidomide and dexamethasone. These frail patients, who physicians would traditionally reserve doublets for, may be good candidates for triplets in specific scenarios.