In patients with extramedullary plasmacytoma of the head and neck, radiotherapy and surgery provide comparable survival outcomes, but radiotherapy significantly reduced the risk for progression to ...

Radiation therapy is a treatment that uses high doses of radiation to damage cancer cells, either killing them or slowing their growth. Unlike the low-dose radiation used in X-rays to see inside the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Extramedullary plasmacytoma and solitary plasmacytoma represent rare manifestations of plasma cell dyscrasias, where abnormal plasma cells accumulate as a single localised lesion. In the case of ...

Multiple myeloma is a rare type of blood cancer that starts in your plasma cells. Your plasma cells are a type of white blood cell inside your bone marrow, the soft inner part of your bones. If you ...