A growing number of physicians are starting to shift their thinking about multiple myeloma’s prognosis. For years, patients ...

In multiple myeloma, a single plasma cell mutates into a tumor cell. That cell reproduces ... most patients develop tumors at various locations in the bone marrow, hence the "multiple" in the ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells multiply in your bone marrow — the soft, squishy tissue in the center of bones where new blood cells are made. Experts don't know what causes multiple ...

Multiple myeloma is a relatively uncommon cancer of plasma cells, where excessive proliferation of these malignant cells within the bone marrow leads to abnormal antibody production ... In ...

Hematologist-oncologist Mateo Mejia Saldarriaga, MD, combines clinical care with research aimed at helping patients with ...

A stem cell transplant can be a good treatment for multiple myeloma. A successful transplant gives someone with multiple myeloma new, healthy bone marrow. It replaces the bone marrow harmed by myeloma ...

Several studies have been conducted, but questions remain about where such therapies will fit into multiple myeloma treatment ...

Background. A 59-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a left rib fracture and was diagnosed with IgA multiple myeloma. The patient underwent autologous bone-marrow ...

Bone marrow is also a production site for other cells like red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Multiple myeloma is when the plasma cells grow out of control and become cancerous.

10 Relapses can be detected with blood tests, urine tests, bone imaging studies, or bone marrow biopsy ... These hormones may stop tumor cell death and contribute to resistance to treatment. 19 The ...