Multiple myeloma is the second most commonly diagnosed type of blood cancer (after lymphoma). But it’s still relatively uncommon. Around the world, there were about 180,000 new cases in 2022. That ...

Plasmapheresis is an uncommon treatment that can be used to manage something called myeloma kidney, a type of kidney failure that affects many people with multiple myeloma. It separates out plasma ...

Multiple myeloma is an uncommon cancer affecting plasma cells in the bone marrow. Tumors in the bones and other organs can cause the cells to grow out of control. A complication of this cancer is ...

Multiple myeloma was once viewed as an incurable diagnosis, but Ameet Patel, MD, of Florida Cancer Specialists & Research ...

Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is a condition that affects plasma cells in the bone marrow. These are a type of white blood cell that help keep the body safe from infection. SMM is a subdivision of ...

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 ...

No two cancers are the same. While most people know about cancer, when you get down to the disease level, each type is unique. Take blood cancers, for example: leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma ...

Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is a precancerous condition affecting white blood cells, called plasma cells, in the bone marrow. It can turn into multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer that can ...

Multiple myeloma causes an overgrowth of cancerous plasma cells in your bone marrow. When these cancerous cells crowd out the healthy cells in your bone marrow, thrombocytopenia can occur. Multiple ...

Minimal residual disease (MRD) refers to the small number of myeloma cells that may remain after treatment and are not detectable using conventional response criteria. In multiple myeloma, MRD ...

Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that forms in plasma cells, white blood cells that produce infection-fighting antibodies. Multiple myeloma is not hereditary, meaning it is not passed down ...