What would you offer to a patient with musculoskeletal pain from tarlatamab, requiring hospitalization and opioid use?
The patient is refractory to steroids. Any preferred DMARDs?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
Bone and muscle pain with tarlatamab can be significant (affecting nearly one-third of patients in clinical trials, I think). A multimodal plan combining opioids with non-opioid analgesics, supportive therapies, and proactive side effect monitoring is often necessary to combat this.The pathway that ...