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Category Archives for Multiple Myeloma
Caregiving A Chronically Ill Patient
Caregiving or assisting someone who is chronically ill can be a draining experience. Regardless of that, there are a lot of people in this world who decide that this is their calling in life Unfortunately,
Continue readingAutologous Stem Cell Transplant for Multiple Myeloma Explained
Abnormalities in multiple myeloma patients with (4;14) and (14;16) and loss of 17p13 confirmed poor prognosis with (stem cell transplant) high dose therapy. Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (ASCT)
Continue readingMyeloma Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
If you work in America you pay for Social Security Disability Insurance. I paid this tax for years before I had any idea of what it was or how important it was I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma (MM)
Continue readingSide-Effects Change Multiple Myeloma Patient Decision-Making…
“… your choices change depending on where you are in your (MM) disease state and what is it that has impacted you (side-effects) along your journey with the disease.” I know side-effects
Continue readingAntioxidant Foods to Fight Myeloma
“There are no proven special diets to treat multiple myeloma. However, there are specific nutrition strategies that can be used to treat common symptoms, such as kidney damage and anemia, as well
Continue readingMyeloma-Add Organic Protein to Daily Diet
“In general, your diet will provide enough protein (PRO). However, during cancer (MM) treatment (such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy) your protein requirements may increase” I
Continue readingMultiple Myeloma-Autologous Stem Cell Transplant = “Taste Impairments…”
(MM) Patients reported experiencing decreased QOL at day 30 (ASCT), but gustatory sensitivity and QOL were largely recovered by day 80; investigators noted however, that some taste impairments persisted. I
Continue readingMyeloma- The Burden of Survivorship and Life After Treatment
Once in a great while you find an article that summarizes your thoughts and feelings about a particular issue. This article expresses the difficulties of the life of a cancer survivor very well. Few
Continue readingMyeloma: Antioxidant, Chemotherapy Combo Shows Benefits
“…including 50 human studies involving 8,521 patients, 5,081 of whom were given nutrients, have consistently shown…” In all my experience as a multiple myeloma survivor and MM cancer
Continue readingWeight Loss and Non-Conventional Therapies For Multiple Myeloma Survival
Non-Conventional Therapies for Multiple Myeloma (MM) Patients-Nutrition, Frequent Moderate Exercise, Supplementation, Detoxification, and More… I have lived in complete remission from my incurable
Continue readingResilience is Key to both Multiple Myeloma as well as MLB
Multiple Myeloma Survivors have to cope with mental and physical impairment in terms of HRQOL and depression. The concept of resilience refers to a person’s ability to adapt to adversity. According to
Continue readingLanguage of Oncology- What Multiple Myeloma Patients Need to Know-
“I don’t want to call it dehumanization, but the language of (multiple myeloma) oncology that was instilled in us early in our fellowships is a language that we tend to adopt as a second skin.” The
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