Caring for Someone With Multiple Myeloma
Because Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a chronic (or long-lasting) disease that is also progressive (meaning that it worsens over time), people living with MM may...
Category : Multiple Myeloma
Multiple Myeloma – More Common in Blacks
Multiple myeloma is a cancer of a type of white blood cell found in bone marrow. All of us have these white blood cells, called...
New Multiple Myeloma Treatment Options Provide Hope
Multiple myeloma is a relatively rare blood cancer that develops in the bone marrow. As these cancerous cells accumulate in the marrow, they crowd out...
Are You at Risk for Multiple Myeloma?
Multiple myeloma is a relatively rare cancer that develops in the bone marrow. As the cancerous plasma cells accumulate in the marrow, they crowd out...
How to Cope With a Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis
If you recently found out you have Multiple myeloma, or even if you’ve known it for some time, you might be experiencing feelings such as...
Multiple Myeloma: What Is It?
Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that starts in the plasma cells of the bone marrow. These protein-making cells normally make all of the...
How Multiple Myeloma Starts
Multiple Myeloma Changes Your Cell’s Genetic Makeup How Multiple Myeloma Starts Multiple Myeloma is cancer of a type of immune cell called a plasma cell....
Gene Therapy May Kill Multiple Myeloma
Genetically using a person’s own immune cells to target cancer appears to virtually kill multiple myeloma, a blood cancer being diagnosed more frequently, according to an...
Craig Cole, M.D.: Dropping the Knowledge About Multiple Myeloma
This blood cancer is twice as likely to strike African Americans Cheryl Boyce, a health-care advocate, had heard of multiple myeloma, but the disease was...
Multiple Myeloma: Choosing the Right Treatment
If you’re looking for a standard treatment for multiple myeloma—a cancer that’s more likely to affect you if you’re African American, older than 65 and...