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COMy 2025 | Practical advice for physicians treating patients with myeloma using belantamab mafodotin
Sagar Lonial, MD, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, offers practical guidance for physicians treating patients with multiple myeloma (MM) using belantamab mafodotin. Prof. Lonial emphasizes the importance of collaborating with an eye care provider to monitor ocular side effects. He also advises adopting longer dosing intervals, highlighting his center’s approach of starting with eight-week dosing followed by 12-week dosing. This interview took place at the 11th World Congress on Controversies in Multiple Myeloma (COMy) congress in Paris, France.
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Transcript
Well, I think the key again is to find an eye care partner that you can work with. It doesn’t have to be an ophthalmologist, it can be an optometrist. Make sure that you do give that first dose, but then consider spreading the dose beyond that. At our center, we have a trial of maintenance bela, where we start with every eight week dosing and then we go to every 12 week dosing after that...
Well, I think the key again is to find an eye care partner that you can work with. It doesn’t have to be an ophthalmologist, it can be an optometrist. Make sure that you do give that first dose, but then consider spreading the dose beyond that. At our center, we have a trial of maintenance bela, where we start with every eight week dosing and then we go to every 12 week dosing after that. You don’t have to hammer on with the every three week dosing or even every four week dosing. It’s just not necessary in almost all patients.
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