Patrick Daly

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Black patients with multiple myeloma (MM) achieved similar or superior survival outcomes compared with White patients with MM after adjusting for major confounders, according to a recent report on a meta-analysis of real-world patients in MM studies in the United States.
The findings indicate “that similarities in patient populations and equal access to treatment can bridge the disparity in patient outcomes between races,” according to lead author, Joseph Mikhael, MD, of the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. The data were presented in Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma &amp; Leukemia.
Black Patients Achieve Similar Outcomes When Adjusting for Confounders
The study’s systematic literature review identified 33 observational US studies published between January 2015 and October 2021. The studies had a pooled total of 410,086 patients with MM, of whom 21.5% were Black and 78.5% were White. Treatments varied, but most analyzed patients received stem cell transplantation and systemic therapy.
Authors noted the distribution of treatments received was generally similar for both racial groups, except that doublet therapies ranged from 21% to 55% among Black patients versus 22% to 40% among White patients. The largest variation was seen in the proportion of patients who received <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK536951/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stem cell transplantation</a>, with a range of 3.7% to 94.0% across 9 studies not explicitly enrolling transplant patients.
Ultimately, “all stakeholders must participate in efforts to achieve health equity, including addressing the social determinants of health, providing disease education, and enhancing access to quality health care for all patients in order to overcome the health disparity faced by Black individuals with MM in the [United States],” Dr. Mikhael and colleagues suggested.
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