Abstract:
Primary plasma cell leukemia (pPCL) is a rare and very aggressive plasma cell malignancy. Even with currently available regimens for treating high-risk multiple myeloma (MM), the treatment of PCL remains challenging. The outcomes of MM have improved in recent years because of the use of proteasome inhibitors (PIs), immunomodulatory drugs (IMIDs), monoclonal antibodies, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell immunotherapy (CAR-T), and autologous stem cell transplantation. Therefore, novel regimens and stem cell transplantation are currently being investigated and will hopefully improve the prognosis of pPCL. In this review, we focus on advances in the treatment of PCL.