What is ABECMA? ABECMA (idecabtagene vicleucel) is a prescription medicine for the treatment of multiple myeloma in patients who have received at least four kinds of treatment regimens that have not worked or have stopped working. ABECMA is a medicine made from your own white blood cells; the cells are genetically modified to recognize and attack your multiple myeloma cells.
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The most common side effects of ABECMA are fatigue, fever (100.4°F/38°C or higher), chills/shivering, severe nausea or diarrhea, decreased appetite, headache, dizziness/lightheadedness, confusion, difficulty speaking or slurred speech, cough, difficulty breathing, and fast or irregular heartbeat.
Overall response is the term
used when there is a meaningful
decrease in signs of myeloma.
This includes partial response (a
decrease in the amount of
myeloma in the body) and
complete response.
Complete response (CR) or
better is a term that means there
is no detectable evidence of
tumor in the body (all signs of
myeloma have disappeared). A
CR does not mean the myeloma
has been cured.
Follow-up time is the time
between infusion and the most
recent time point when data on
the patient’s outcomes were
recorded.
83% of patients who responded to ABECMA responded within one month of their infusion (60 out of 72 patients; the range was 0.5 to 2.9 months).
While regular check-ins with your healthcare team are still required, the following are NOT required for your MM while responding to ABECMA:
Duration of response is the
length of time a patient
continues to respond to therapy
without their multiple myeloma
growing or spreading.
The median is the middle
number in a set of data. This
means half the numbers in the
group are more than the median
and half the numbers in a group
are less than the median.
CAR=chimeric antigen receptor; RRMM=relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.