Multiple myelomacan cause you to have bone pains and weak or easily broken bones. Caring for your bones is an important part of your treatment plan that can significantly improve your health, well-being, and quality of life. How Does Multiple Myeloma Affect Your Bones? Multiple myeloma is ab...
Pomalyst is a prescription medication used to treat multiple myeloma and Kaposi sarcoma (KS). Serious side effects include birth defects and miscarriage when taken in pregnancy, venous and arterial thromboembolism, low white blood cells (neutropenia), lo
X-rays: You may have x-rays to check for broken or thinning bones. An x-ray of your whole body can be done to see how many bones could be damaged by the myeloma. Biopsy: Your doctor removes tissue to look for cancer cells. A biopsy is the only sure way to know whether myeloma ...
X-rays: You may have x-rays to check for broken or thinning bones.An x-ray of your whole body can be done to see how many bones could be damaged by the myeloma. Biopsy: Your doctor removes tissue to look for cancer cells. A biopsy is the only sure way to know whether myeloma cel...
Multiple myeloma was initially termed “multiple” to distinguish it from plasmacytoma, a solitary tumor of a bone or an organ/tissue. Solitary plasmacytoma (SP) may develop further into a solitary plasmacytoma with minimal marrow involvement (SPMMI). Both SP and SPMMI are characterized by monoclo...
In multiple myeloma, cancerous plasma cells multiply rapidly in the bone marrow and invade the outer layers of the bones. This can weaken bones so much that minimal trauma can cause a bone fracture at the cancer site. The myeloma plasma cells also make too much of one specific type of imm...
Another multiple myeloma staging system, which is newer and has become more common, is called the International Staging System. Based on levels of certain proteins in the blood, this system also breaks down cases into three stages. Stage I myeloma is diagnosed when a patient has near-normal re...
Most plasma cells reside in the bone marrow, and myeloma, accordingly, usually occurs within the marrow-containing large bones of the body, such as the skull, vertebrae (spine), and hips. Because they are present throughout the bone marrow, plasma cells that have undergone malignant transformati...
I've been married for nearly 15 years to a wonderful husband and I'm a mom to three great kids ages 12, 11 and 9. Oh, and I just happen to have cancer. Multiple Myeloma is a cancer of the blood that is currently incurable but IS considered highly treat
Multiple myeloma plasma cell populations accumulate in the bone marrow, and these collections of cells called plasmacytomas can erode the hard outer shell or cortex of the bone that normally surrounds the marrow. These weakened bones show thinning of the bone, as seen in nonmalignantosteoporosisor...