As multiple myeloma gets worse, the plasma cells spill out of your bone marrow and spread. This causes more organ damage. To confirm a diagnosis, you might have blood tests including: A complete ...

Multiple myeloma is a rare type of blood cancer that forms in plasma cells, a white blood cell that makes antibodies and ...

Multiple myeloma — cancer of the white blood cells known as plasma cells — can cause a vast spectrum of symptoms as it progresses. But multiple myeloma often has no outward signs in its early ...

Early intervention in high-risk smoldering myeloma with lenalidomide delays progression by up to 7 years and achieves ...

In An Exercise in Uncertainty, Jon Gluck traces decades of waiting, watching, enduring experimental treatment, and ...

These include: Because smoldering multiple myeloma usually causes no symptoms, your healthcare provider may discover it by chance. Signs of SMM may show up during routine blood or urine tests or ...

Although the cause of multiple myeloma is not known, research shows that genetic changes in the DNA of a single plasma cell set into motion a chain of events that turn a plasma cell into a myeloma ...

Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer caused by a buildup of abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow. As the abnormal plasma cells accumulate, they crowd out healthy cells and cause symptoms ...

Renal failure in multiple myeloma typically occurs when the kidneys fail to filter waste products from the blood, leading to ...

Instead, multiple myeloma develops due to genetic mutations (changes) in the DNA of plasma cells. What causes these genetic mutations is not fully understood, but a combination of environmental ...