The American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting will take place Dec. 7 through Dec. 10 in Orlando, Florida, and the abstracts for the meeting—always eagerly awaited—were released yesterday. Among the over 700 abstracts dealing with or mentioning myeloma, it is extremely difficult to highlight just 10 of interest. This year, 92 abstracts were selected for oral presentation and there is a clear preference for the high-profile, new, and emerging immune therapies, including CAR T-cell approaches. This should not distract from the huge poster sessions on Saturday, Dec. 7, Sunday, Dec. 8, and Monday, Dec. 9, which include numerous new and important reports. These will be a source of many “takeaways” from ASH when we have a chance to see full details. In the meantime, I will preview some of the top oral presentations which focus on new observations that may have an impact on the future of myeloma care.
As we move into the holiday season, we are all looking forward to time with family and friends to enjoy, celebrate, and relax after a tumultuous year. This year was extraordinarily busy for the IMF, but in 2019 there were great steps forward to improve outcomes for myeloma patients everywhere. In 
The IMF team just returned from an extremely busy and exciting meeting of the 
Today, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) released 
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