Patients with multiple myeloma often develop bone lesions resulting in skeletal-related events (SREs), such as spinal cord compression, vertebral collapse, pathologic fractures and bone pain. Bone ...

Haznedar R, Akı SZ, Akdemir OU, et al. The role of FDG PET/CT in patients with multiple myeloma is evolving. Earlier studies showed that multiple myeloma lesions with FDG uptake are the metabolically ...

The team tackled a critical challenge in treating multiple myeloma-a blood cancer where malignant plasma cells accumulate in bone marrow, leading to debilitating bone lesions in 80% of patients. These ...

An 83-year-old woman with multiple breast lesions was admitted to the hospital. Histology revealed a tumour with a solid and discreetly trabecular architecture, without calcifications or ...

Multiple myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells, the antibody-making white blood cells that live in your bone marrow. When these cells turn abnormal and multiply, they crowd out healthy blood-forming ...

For most people living with multiple myeloma, bone pain tops the list of symptoms. No wonder, given that the disease causes cancerous plasma cells to build up in bone marrow (the soft tissue in bones) ...

Bone pain is a common symptom that patients with multiple myeloma face, but some may find relief with treatments and exercise. In 2017, Michael Padjen was on the job at his exterior cleaning company ...

A 17-year-old girl presented to a hospital orthopedics department in Vietnam due to pain in her left hip joint, which she noted had been getting worse over the past month. Neither her personal nor her ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through ...

Panelists discuss how Alan Plisskin's multiple myeloma diagnosis began with severe back and hip pain, progressed through life-threatening complications, including seizures and vocal cord paralysis, ...

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 ...