Clinical trial led by UAB researcher supports approval of new, potentially curative treatment for multiple myeloma ...

The team tackled a critical challenge in treating multiple myeloma-a blood cancer where malignant plasma cells accumulate in bone marrow, leading to debilitating bone lesions in 80% of patients. These ...

The blood cancer multiple myeloma, which involves infection-fighting plasma cells in the bone marrow, affects only about 1% of all cancers -- predominantly individuals over age 65. The disease ...

A “significant number of patients” could see a cure for multiple myeloma within the next two decades, one expert told ...

Bonnie was exhausted. It was late 2001, and she’d been working a high-pressure job – barely getting any sleep. “I’d wake up tired, I’d go to bed tired,” she says. She didn’t think much of it, but she ...

Staging is when a system is used to identify and describe how far a cancer has spread in your body. Knowing the stage of your multiple myeloma helps your physicians predict which treatments are most ...

Rapid Novor Inc., a Canadian biotechnology leader, announced today that its diagnostic laboratory has received a provisional license from the Ontario Ministry of Health (MOH) for its EasyM® assay, ...

Anemia often goes hand-in-hand with multiple myeloma. Sometimes, the cancer causes the anemia. And sometimes, the cancer treatment does. But it's possible to resolve it and feel better. (Photo Credit: ...

It is to “transform an event into a driver of hope” that David Gagné has set himself the goal of cycling across Quebec next June to raise awareness of multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer that ...