Gentler myeloma treatment shows promise for frail patients

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Written informed consent obtained to participate in the study and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) authorization for release of personal health information (PHI). Consent must be obtained before performance of any study-related procedure not part of normal medical care, with the understanding that consent may be withdrawn by the subject at any time without prejudice to future medical care. 2. Age ≥ 18 years at the time of consent. 3. Documented symptomatic multiple myeloma that has previously responded to therapy (partial response or better) and is relapsed or relapsed and refractory to the last line of therapy. 4. Patients must also be refractory to at least one prior line of therapy that includes an IMiD and/or a PI, and should have received at least 2 cycles of that regimen to be evaluable for refractoriness . 5. If previously treated with an anti-CD38 containing regimen, the subject must have achieved at least a PR to that line of therapy and must not have received an anti- CD38 mAb for at least 6 months prior to enrollment. 6. Willing and able to adhere to the study visit schedule and other protocol requirements based on the judgement of the investigator. 7. Predicted high risk for severe toxicity from intensive regimens for RRMM, such as standard (full-dose) DPD, DVD, KPD, KRD, Ixa-PD, or Elo-PD as each regimen was published (such regimens often use, for example, twice-weekly bortezomib at 1.3 mg/m2, lenalidomide at 25 mg, or pomalidomide 4 mg). High-risk is defined as one of the following: A. Score ≥ 2 (indicating "frail") on the International Myeloma Working Group instrument (IMWG; Palumbo et al. \[Blood 2015\]) B.KPS ≤ 70 C. Not meeting criteria A or B above but felt by treating clinician to not be a candidate for a standard full-dose regimen on account of one of the following: i) History of clinically significant non-hematologic grade ≥3 (NCI CTCAE, version 5.0) toxicity attributed to prior anticancer therapy ii) History of requiring dose-reduction of at least two separate anticancer drugs during prior therapy for multiple myeloma. Exclusion Criteria: All subjects meeting any of the listed exclusion criteria at baseline with be excluded from study participation. 1. Anti-myeloma treatment within 2 weeks of cycle 1 day 1 2. Prior treatment with pomalidomide 3. Any monoclonal antibody therapy within the previous 30-days 4. Anti-CD38 monoclonal antibody therapy within the previous 6 months 5. Autologous stem cell transplantation within 12 weeks of day 1 of cycle 1 6. Subjects felt to not be candidates by treating physician for any systemic therapy due to excessive comorbidities, frailty, impaired performance status, or other severe limitations. Such limitations can be conceptualized generally as making subjects exceedingly high risk for any systemic treatment. These limitations often stem from medical comorbidities unrelated to MM and they are hence unlikely to improve with MM therapy.