EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended a conditional marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for Elrexfio (elranatamab) as a monotherapy (used on its own) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma who have received at least three prior therapies and whose cancer has worsened since they received their last treatment.  

Multiple myeloma is a rare cancer of the plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that produces antibodies and is found in the bone marrow. In multiple myeloma, the proliferation of plasma cells is out of control, resulting in abnormal, immature plasma cells multiplying and filling up the bone marrow. When plasma cells become cancerous, they no longer protect the body from infections and produce abnormal proteins that can cause problems affecting the kidneys, bones, or blood.

A range of new medicines for the treatment of multiple myeloma have been developed and approved in recent years, leading to a…