Multiple Myeloma

International Myeloma Working Group guidelines for free light chain testing in multiple myeloma by Margaret Patient Expert

Posted Tue 24 Mar 2009 3:20pm Yesterday I received a special edition of the International Myeloma Foundation’s newsletter, “Myeloma Minute,” where I found some interesting details about the serum free light chain (FLC) test. In September 2008 “Leukemia” published the guidelines developed by the International Myeloma Working Group for serum free light chain analysis in multiple Read on »

Thalidomide Promising for Multiple Myeloma by Cancer.gov Posted Tue 22 Feb 2011 11:11pm ... Read on »

Radiation Therapy For Multiple Myeloma by Shilah C. Azib Posted Fri 12 Feb 2010 12:14pm Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that affects the plasma type of white blood cells. The disease is called multiple myeloma because it affects many bones of the bodythus it often forms many tumors and causing other health problems that is why the disease is called multiple myeloma.Radiation therapy for multiple myeloma can be used Read on »

Comparing Post-transplant Therapies for Multiple Myeloma Patients by Cancer.gov Posted Tue 07 Sep 2010 12:00am ... Read on »

Medical Minute – Multiple Myeloma by Lori P. Posted Mon 07 Mar 2011 2:05am Hat Tip: Pat at Living with Multiple Myeloma This is a great, brief, explanation of what Multiple Myeloma is. For those of us who have wanted to share a simple, straight forward explanation with our family and friends, this will do the trick. Click Here and then click on the audio button. Thanks Pat, you [...] Read on »

The history of multiple myeloma by Margaret Patient Expert

Posted Sat 08 Aug 2009 12:35am As I was looking through the new edition of “Blood” yesterday, I came across an interesting historical overview of multiple myeloma by Dr. Robert Kyle (with whom I have spoken by phone and been in touch with occasionally since 2005: an extremely nice, kind, reassuring doctor) and Dr. Vincent Rajkumar, Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The full [...] Read on »

Saw palmetto and multiple myeloma: the full study by Margaret Patient Expert

Posted Mon 12 Oct 2009 10:00pm

1 Comment A blog reader, an 8-year survivor of multiple myeloma, recently told me that he began taking curcumin last summer, after reading my post on the curcumin-bortezomib study. This combination, he believes, produced much better results than the Velcade alone would have. Based on my July 23rd 2009 post on saw palmetto, or Serenoa repens, he [...] Read on »

Studies Support Expanded Role for Lenalidomide in Treating Multiple Myeloma by Cancer.gov Posted Wed 16 May 2012 10:10pm Maintenance therapy with the drug lenalidomide (Revlimid) substantially lengthens the time patients with multiple myeloma live without their cancers progressing, according to the results of three randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials published May 10 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read on »

Gene Expression Profiling Advances in Multiple Myeloma by Lori P. Posted Thu 16 Dec 2010 5:19pm A state-of-the-art test assesses prognosis and helps individualize therapy. An article appearing in HemOnc Today, Clinical News in Oncology and Hematology. One of the most unique diagnostic tests developed at UAMS in their 21+ years of exclusively researching Multiple Myeloma at the Myeloma Institute of Research and Therapy (MIRT). Excerpts: “Modern Read on »

Translocation t(14;16) and multiple myeloma by Lori P. Posted Sun 13 Feb 2011 10:47am “Translocation t(14;16) and multiple myeloma: is it really an independent prognostic factor?” - (Hat Tip, Margaret @ Margaret’s Corner, see sidebar for blog link) Appeared in Blood Journal October 20, 2010 Abstract: Many trials in myeloma are stratified on cytogenetic abnormalities. Among them, the most commonly chosen are the t(4;14), the del(17p Read on »

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