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 treatment involved carfilzomib, bendamustine, dexamethasone, and zoledronic acid, alongside MRI scans and radiation therapy. Severe spinal fractures led to significant height loss and ...

Multiple myeloma affects many systems in the body, including the bones, blood, kidneys, and immune system. The symptoms that may have sent you to the doctor in the first place, such as back or leg ...

Histopathological image of multiple myoloma. Smear preparation of bone marrow aspirate stained with May-Grünwald-Giemsa procedure. It doest not represent a histopathologic image but essentially helps ...

For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled ...

"Very few patients in earlier years underwent two stem cell transplants and survived long-term. Today, with newer drugs such as daratumumab, carfilzomib, and bispecific antibodies like teclistamab, we ...

Hospitals are seeing success treating multiple myeloma with advanced therapies. Second autologous stem cell transplants, even ...

"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 ...