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Category Archives for Pre-Myeloma
MGUS and Diabetes? Get GLP-1 RA
Have you been diagnosed with both MGUS and diabetes? If so, GLP-1 RA use could lower your risk of cardiovascular events. I am a long-term myeloma survivor. I was originally diagnosed with a type of pre-MM.
Continue readingMGUS Diet-
The study linked below, touting an MGUS diet, does not say anything about a high-fiber diet slows progression to MM or how an MGUS diet improves diagnostic testing info. What the study does say is that
Continue readingAnnual CT Scan for SMM???
What are the risks and benefits of an annual CT scan for smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM)? While the article linked below promotes this practice, how should SMM patients think about this practice? As
Continue readingLow-dose CT for Stable MGUS?
Is a low-dose CT for stable MGUS an important diagnostic tool or too much radiation? You may have read the recent article about CT scans increasing the risk of cancer, which the patient’s question
Continue readingMGUS Risk Increases w/ Excess BMI
MGUS patients with an increased BMI have an increased risk of progressing to multiple myeloma. To put this another way, MGUS patients no longer need to “watch and wait.” The usual statistic
Continue readingMGUS SMM ARE NOT CANCER!
The article below is an important reminder that MGUS and SMM are not cancer. They are considered to be blood disorders. Yes, MGUS and SMM or pre-myeloma, increase the patient’s risk of a frank
Continue readingTreatment of High Risk SMM?
Study after study examining treatment of high risk SMM (smoldering multiple myeloma) say the same thing. Yes, treatment delays possible progression to frank multiple myeloma. But studies cannot honestly
Continue readingMGUS Bone Involvement?
How is MGUS bone involvement measured and tracked? Meaning, if an MGUS patient has a serum calcium level above normal, what does it mean? According to the study linked below, of the more than 75,000 patients
Continue readingIntermediate Risk SMM Questions
Hi David. I have been diagnosed with Intermediate Risk SMM. 3 months ago. I am 70 years old, Height 165 cms and I weigh 72 Kgs. 2 months ago, I started doing Alternative treatments to prevent Multiple
Continue readingTelehealth for MGUS/SMM
Telehealth for MGUS/SMM, the Pre-Myeloma patient, is certainly about pre-MM but also about your RISK. You Risk of progressing to full MM. And most patients diagnosed with either MGUS or SMM will eventually
Continue readingDiet Slows MGUS Progression
Diet slows MGUS progression? It wasn’t too long ago when pre-MM patients (MGUS, SMM) were told that there were no therapies for MGUS and that there was nothing they could do to treat their blood
Continue readingMGUS Blood Clots?
MGUS blood clots is slang for monoclonal gammopathy of thrombotic significance- yet another symptom of this “asymptomatic” blood disorder with the general name monoclonal gammopathy of clinical
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