Pre-ASH Blog: “ASH Is Mind-Blowing!”
I’m grateful to be part of this year’s IMF Myeloma Voices Team at #ASH24! I am one of the eleven myeloma patients on this Team. Each year, the Team consists of veteran leaders and new leaders to share their journey, experience, and excitement. This year, we are missing one of our fearless leaders, Jack Aiello. He has been our friend and mentor for over 20 years, and we will miss him here at ASH. We will carry forward the important work and information and Hope that Jack would want us to do. I can hear him saying to us . . . “Don’t screw up!” LOL.
Since I first started attending ASH many years ago, myeloma oral abstracts and posters at ASH have grown exponentially, At my first few ASH experiences, there were only a handful of myeloma abstracts. Dr. Vincent Rajkumar recently posted on X . . . “A medicine is a chemical and will stay so in the absence of clinical trials. No trial, no medicines.”
Thanks to the perseverance of all the researchers and pharmaceutical companies out there because we need more medicines! Don’t give up!
My focus is in the relapse setting to learn more about the next “lily pads” available to jump to.
ASH is mind blowing! Stay tuned for my vlogs—live from ASH as our Team reports to you.