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Patient advocacy organizations regularly field and fulfill requests for assistance from patients with a serious illness, such as cancer. In the face of COVID-19, such requests have increased exponentially. Ms Goldsmith and Mr Klein outlined their organizations’ efforts to meet patients’ needs.

Mr McDaniel and Dr Consuelos discussed the likely long-term impact of and lessons for the healthcare industry from the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the time I am writing this, we are in an unprecedented situation with COVID-19 declared a global pandemic. As healthcare professionals, we have an obligation to help our patients understand the risks and the ways in which they can avoid contracting COVID-19.

This study examined characteristics of the Patient Care Connect Program team as an exemplar given their demonstrated success in improving patient health and care experience while lowering costs of care through patient navigation.

Nurse Navigator Debra Kelly describes her team’s experience in determining content and designing a guide to educate patients and improve their experience.

When elotuzumab was given in combination with pomalidomide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone (elo-PVD), patients with multiple myeloma refractory to prior treatment demonstrated encouraging responses, according to data from a phase 2 trial presented at the 2019 ASH Annual Meeting by Andrew Yee, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston.

In patients with multiple myeloma who were pomalidomide naive and refractory to lenalidomide, an alloral combination of selinexor, pomalidomide, and dexamethasone (SPd) led to a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 12.2 months and an overall response rate (ORR) of 56%, with 19% of patients achieving very good partial responses.

In patients with transplant-ineligible, newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, adding daratumumab to bortezomib, melphalan, and prednisone (D-VMP) continues to improve overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) when compared with bortezomib, melphalan, and prednisone (VMP) alone.

Following induction therapy with daratumumab (DARA) plus cyclophosphamide, bortezomib, and dexamethasone (CyBorD), monthly daratumumab maintenance therapy given for a year continued to improve depth of response in a group of patients with newly diagnosed or relapsed multiple myeloma.

In patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, the efficacy benefits seen when elotuzumab was added to lenalidomide/dexamethasone (Ld) were achieved without negatively affecting health-related quality of life (HRQoL).