Do you hold maintenance lenalidomide or bortezomib for a patient who needs a surgery?

Topics: Hematologic Malignancies • Medical Oncology • Myeloma • Hematology

For example, for joing replacement surgery? Do you hold the revlimid for certain about of time before and after?

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

I'm not aware of any formal data to guide this recommendation. In general, I do not recommend holding maintenance lenalidomide or bortezomib for surgery. I do hold maintenance for treatment if/when: - the patient has cytopenias from treatment and would benefit from improved counts from a treatmen...

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Medical Oncologist at University of Texas Medical School
Good answer.

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