In this episode of the SOHO Insider podcast, Thomas Martin, MD, professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, talks with patient Craig Chase, an American father of two who was diagnosed with myeloma in 2014, and was the only American to travel to Nanjing, China, in 2017 to receive ciltacabtagene autoleucel (cilta-cel; then LCAR-B38M).
Chase shares his experience traveling to China for the therapy as a heavily-treated patient with limited treatment options. Chase talked about his treatment journey, his experience being treated in a foreign country with an experiment therapy, and what it was like achieving long-term remission.
Dr. Martin also discussed the five-year CARTITUDE-1 follow-up date presented at both ASCO(R) and EHA 2025. Those date showed that one-third of myeloma patients were in remission more than five years after cilta-cel treatment. The results of these trials and other trial data on therapies other than cilta-cel, prompted Sundar Jagannath, MD, during SOHO 2025 to address potential of using the word cure when speaking with patients.
