Understanding Prognosis In Multiple Myeloma
One of the most difficult questions in oncology is: “How long do I have to live?” Patients often bring this up to their physicians following a diagnosis of cancer, and periodically during the course of...
View ArticleResearchers Identify Factors That Predict Long-Term Survival In Newly...
Results from a recent French study identified several factors that predict long-term survival of patients newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma. These prognostic factors include the absence of three...
View ArticleQuality Of Response Following Stem Cell Transplant May Predict Long-Term...
Follow-up results from a long-term study conducted in Italy indicate that quality of response may be the most significant predictor of long-term survival in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients...
View ArticleME vs MM: Prognosis?
One of the first questions most of us probably ask after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma is “How long do I have?”, or some derivative thereof. For me, I think the question came right after...
View ArticleResearchers Develop Vulnerability Score To Better Assess Survival In Multiple...
Italian researchers have developed a vulnerability score to better assess survival in multiple myeloma patients. The score is based on the patient’s overall health and the presence of other diseases....
View ArticlePat’s Place: How Many Ways Are There To Remove A Band-Aid?
Earlier this week, I was talking with three other long-lived multiple myeloma survivors who are all in remission. The fascinating part was that all four of us got there in different ways. One had...
View ArticleSean’s Burgundy Thread: Stoppage Time
“So, how much time are they giving you?” an old friend from college asked me with great concern in his voice. We had lost touch for several years, and he had only recently learned of my ongoing battle...
View ArticleTandem Auto-Allo Transplantation May Improve Prognosis Of High-Risk Myeloma...
Results from a small German study indicate that a stem cell transplant using the patient’s own cells, followed by a transplant using cells from a donor, may improve the prognosis of multiple myeloma...
View ArticlePat’s Place: It’s Time To Stop Denying The Elephant In The Room, Death And Dying
As a former drug and alcohol counselor, I was trained to identify and deal with the “elephant in the living room” In other words, the painful reality that everyone would talk around but rarely face....
View ArticleChromosomal Abnormalities May Identify Smoldering Myeloma Patients At Higher...
Results from a recent retrospective study indicate that chromosomal abnormalities may be useful for predicting which smoldering myeloma patients have a higher risk of progressing to active, or...
View ArticleResearchers Assess Frequency And Prognostic Value Of Chromosomal...
French researchers recently determined that the chromosomal abnormalities t(4;14) and del(13) are less common in older newly diagnosed myeloma patients than in younger patients. In contrast, the...
View ArticleNew Comorbidity Index May Help Determine Multiple Myeloma Risk Level
German researchers recently developed a new system that calculates the risk level of multiple myeloma patients based on patient’s overall health status and other diseases a patient has in addition to...
View ArticleShould Myeloma Patients Panic If They Do Not Achieve A Complete Response?
Over the last year or two, I have seen an increasing number of patients with multiple myeloma who are deeply worried that they have “failed” treatment because they are not in “complete response” (CR)....
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Multiple Myeloma Survival Increased Significantly The Past 15 Years, But...
Researchers recently reported updated survival rates for multiple myeloma patients in the United States. The results show that survival has improved steadily – and markedly – from 1998 to 2009....
View ArticleExperts Publish Consensus Risk Classification For Multiple Myeloma
An international panel of multiple myeloma experts, known as the International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG), recently released a consensus statement on risk stratification for patients with multiple...
View ArticleBeacon NewsFlashes – September 25, 2013
Being Overweight At Diagnosis Associated With Better Prognosis In Myeloma – In a recent study using data for U.S. veterans, researchers from Washington University in St. Louis found that the extent...
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Survival Of Multiple Myeloma Patients Significantly Increases Over Last Decade
Findings from a recent retrospective study conducted by researchers at the Mayo Clinic show that overall survival for multiple myeloma patients treated at that cancer center has improved significantly...
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