Myeloma

Thalidomide Found to be Effective Treatment

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 10th, 2000

A Mayo Clinic study has found that thalidomide, a drug withdrawn nearly 40 years ago for causing birth defects, can be an effective medical treatment for multiple myeloma, an often fatal cancer that develops in the bone marrow.

The study, conducted by the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Rochester, Minnesota and published in the September 2000 edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, showed that one-fourth of patients with advanced multiple myeloma enrolled in the study responded to thalidomide therapy after failing conventional medical treatments.

"That's encouraging information because thalidomide is the first drug in over two decades that is...

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