No, unfortunately, multiple myeloma cannot be cured. This is because there's no way to completely get rid of the genetic changes in your bone marrow once you have them. Your doctor will instead focus your treatment on keeping the cancer from getting worse and reducing your symptoms so you m...
Although multiple myeloma cannot be cured with current therapies, it can often be controlled with treatment. In some people with multiple myeloma, the treatment does not work at all, or it works at first but the cancer comes back. This is known as refractory or relapsed multiple myeloma. New...
Myeloma is the second most common blood cancer, but it is not a common cancer. An estimated 32,110 new patients will be diagnosed with myeloma in the United States in 2019, and men are diagnosed with the condition slightly more frequently than women. The mortality statistic in the U.S. i...
Such a long follow-up with subsequent cure is rare in multiple myeloma as is the appearance of a second B cell malignancy, which may either be associated with the myeloma and/or chemotherapy given, or a coincidental occurrence. 展开 关键词: Multiple myeloma malignant lymphoma extranodal lymphoma...
The desire to understand how this patient was cured has led to the discovery that hepatitis B and C viruses are one of the causes of multiplemyeloma, and that eliminating infection with antivirals is often the way to fight this type of cancer. ...
Myeloma typically occurs in older adults (over 60) and the disease is more prevalent in men than women. More than 5,500 cases of the condition are diagnosed every year in the UK, but while outcomes have improved in recent years, the disease cannot be cured in most patients. ...
Multiple myeloma is a currently incurable malignancy of terminally differentiated plasma cells. It typically occurs in older patients (median age 71 years). Clinical manifestations result from monocl...
Any type of response should be maintained for a minimum of 6 weeks. The International Myeloma Working Group expanded the EBMT criteria by adding the categories of stringent CR (sCR) and very good partial response (VGPR) (Table 7) [25]. In addition, other important concepts such as the ...
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematologic cancer characterized by the malignant proliferation of plasma cells and plasma cell precursors 1, 2, 3, 4. This cancer type, which constitutes 1% of all adult malignancies and 13% of hematologic malignancies, cannot be completely cured despite conventional ch...
BACKGROUND: Although multiple myeloma is known to be a hematologic malignancy which cannot be cured, MP (melphaln, prednisone) based combination chemotherapy can prolong survival and improve quality of life for myeloma patients. The purp... EJ Lee,KH Lee,MS Hyun 被引量: 5发表: 1997年 加载更...