About 4 months ago my Daratumamab/Revlimid combination stopped working(my Lambda Light Chain numbers went weigh up). My doctor switched me to Elotuzumab/Pomalyst. It temporarily stabilized the increase but now I'm up to 108(max normal is 26), my highest in 3 years. I believe another option is Carfilzomib. As anyone used this after failing others? Feel like I'm running out of options. Will see my doctor next week.
I was in the same situation so my oncologist suggested CAR-T Cell Therapy. I had it done in May of last year. At that time I was given 6 to 9 months. I am now in remission for 7 months. I highly recommend it.
Here's the Case Study that shows continued use of Darz & DarzFasPro results in them losing effectiveness due to the MM expressing less CD38.
Then based on a 6 month and 12 month break from these mAb Meds, they can regain most of their effectiveness.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10...
Mark, there other options for you. There were two new drugs just recently approved last August. They’ll come up with something for you! 🙏
Give Dara a 6 month break - it's very likely that it will regain its ability to work.
I've read a Case Study that documented this. I'll post a Link to that one once I find it again.
Dara also kills off your Natural Killer Cells - the link below is to the graph is from a Case Study that shows Dara kills Natural Killer Cells (extremely important for our defense). After 6 months, they regained most of their original levels.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/t...
Here's the article that includes the above graph.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC57...
Thanks. I'm anxious to review this with my oncologist whose usual we'll informed.