We are changing more than cancer research.
We are changing patients’ lives.
The MMRF and our partners have
publications. “The MMRF plans to keep
transformed the landscape for
the disruption going and the therapies
multiple myeloma. Patients have
coming,” Forbes said. The progress we
10 new treatments, four in 2015 alone.
are making has extended lives, but we
Their lifespans have tripled. We are
have more to learn.
moving faster than ever. And leading
We now know that myeloma
publications are taking notice.
is not just one disease
Recognized in Forbes, Fortune
and the Wall Street Journal
The progress the MMRF has made, and
the way we have made that progress,
have recently been noted in prominent
“There is more hope now
than ever.”
—Jeanie Dreyer, multiple myeloma patient,
with her husband Michael at the Boston 5K
It’s more like 10. So we’ve built the
largest, most comprehensive genomic
data set in all of myeloma — the MMRF
CoMMpass StudySM — to study over
1,000 patients throughout the course
These are the kinds of quotes we inspire:
“Calling these efforts an
‘impressive track record’
would be an
understatement.”
“The MMRF resolved to whip
a fragmented cancer research
community into shape by
disrupting old models and
centralizing data.”
“Of all the cancers, in terms of
progress in the last 10 years,
multiple myeloma is at
the top of the list.”
— S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D.
of the Mayo Clinic, quoted
in the Wall Street Journal
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