Donna Lombardi was diagnosed five years ago and reached out after chief meteorologist Roger Griswold shared his diagnosis.
Clinical trial led by UAB researcher supports approval of new, potentially curative treatment for multiple myeloma ...
Commonly prescribed heart medications, including statins and diuretics, do not negatively affect the survival of ...
How Does Multiple Myeloma Impact the Kidneys? Multiple myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of immune cell found in bone marrow. Healthy plasma cells make proteins called antibodies to fight ...
Lower regulatory T cells (Tregs) at diagnosis in patients with multiple myeloma were linked to early relapse and may indicate functional high-risk status (FHR). FHR patients experience aggressive ...
On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson‘s JNJ Tecvayli in combination with Darzalex ...
Most patients present with asymptomatic, early disease but are found to have abnormal blood and/or urine tests that lead to the diagnosis. In asymptomatic patients, laboratory findings, including ...
The blood cancer multiple myeloma, which involves infection-fighting plasma cells in the bone marrow, affects only about 1% of all cancers -- predominantly individuals over age 65. The disease ...
"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...
Bonnie was exhausted. It was late 2001, and she’d been working a high-pressure job – barely getting any sleep. “I’d wake up tired, I’d go to bed tired,” she says. She didn’t think much of it, but she ...
While it’s not as well-known as, say, leukemia or melanoma, multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer in adults, according to the Cancer Research Institute. “Multiple myeloma is a cancer ...