MMRF Accelerator Magazine Summer 2016 Edition | Page 14

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 14 T HE MMRF.ORG