New therapy offers hope for bone marrow cancer

A new therapy developed by Chinese researchers to treat bone marrow cancer has completed its first phase of clinical trials with a response rate of 90 percent.

The high response rate suggests the therapy might significantly raise the five-year survival rate of patients with multiple myeloma, which currently stands at 50.7 percent.

Multiple myeloma, a cancer that develops in plasma cells and accumulates in the bone marrow, is the second most common malignant tumor in the blood system, and its incidence in China is between 1 and 2 out of 100,000, according to epidemiological investigations.