Sham Mailankody, MBBS
Disclosures
Mailankody reports numerous ties to industry.
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You look at survival for patients with multiple myeloma about 20, 25 years back, it was probably measured, survival was measured, in three to five years, that's the median life expectancy for patients who were diagnosed with myeloma in the mid-1990s, which is only about 25, 30 years back. Today that number is expected to be 10 to 15-plus years and continuing to increase, so that probably is the largest change, it's a combination of all these different things that I mentioned have led to this improvement, and that number continues to increase, which is quite reassuring. Such that we do think that, even though we consider myeloma as a typically incurable disease, for many patients, it is possible now to hopefully live their normal life expectancy with or without treatments.
