Multiple myeloma is a kind of blood cancer that starts in plasma cells. Inside most of your bones is a soft, spongy tissue called bone marrow. Here, your body makes hundreds of thousands of red ...

A successful transplant gives someone with multiple myeloma new, healthy bone marrow. It replaces the bone marrow harmed by myeloma cells. Hematopoietic (hee-MA-toh-poy-EH-tik) stem cells (usually ...

The ability to eliminate specific pathologic cells is creating more options for multiple myeloma patients ... cells and other mature B cells in blood 5. These cells originate with B-lymphocyte ...

We do not know what causes MGUS. There may be a link to autoimmune diseases, genetics, or environmental factors. Like multiple myeloma, MGUS starts in a type of white blood cell called plasma cells.