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Is Myeloma Curable?
Is myeloma curable? Study after study begin with the words, “myeloma is incurable but very treatable.” Or words to this effect. What does it mean to say that both are true???
I’m writing this post because the word cure is creeping into the language of some MM oncologists. I think that using the word cure in the same sentence as the word myeloma can give false hope to the patient.
Therefore, I think that myeloma patients must understand what conventional oncology may mean when they use the word cure. Please watch the video linked below.
As a long-term myeloma survivor myself, I consider the word cure to mean that I die of something else other than multiple myeloma.
I have the utmost respect for Dr. Brian Durie (in the video below). I’ve always considered him to be one of the good oncologists.
When he says “how do we define cure in multiple myeloma” I think that he is referring to oncologists not MM patients/survivors. I am cynical about MM oncology and believe that they are bending the definition of the word cure to support their view of treatment. But this is another issue…
How do we define cure for multiple myeloma?
Multiple myeloma is a complicated blood cancer. Being less than 2% of all annual cancer diagnoses in the United States, MM is not well studied or well understood.
Therefore, I think that MM patients are putting the cart before the horse by asking “is myeloma cureable?” I say this because I’ve spent decades studying MM and have only really fully understood MM and all the issues involved with managing MM for about the past five or six years now.
If you read the article linked below, you will see that the average prognosis for newly diagnosed MM patients has greatly improved over the past twenty years and that average five year survival rates are now over 60%.
This is true because of the many newly developed therapies for MM as the newly developed diagnostic tests and even the number of MM specialists in existance today. The number of complementary and integrative therapies (not FDA approved…) have grown as well.
There is a lot to be hopeful for the newly diagnosed MM patient.
Email me at David.PeopleBeatingCancer@gmail.com with your questions about MM, diagnostics, therapies, etc. After all, knowledge is power.
Good luck,
David Emerson
- MM Survivor
- MM Cancer Coach
- Director PeopleBeatingCancer
Multiple Myeloma: Improved Prognosis With the Latest Treatments
Is multiple myeloma curable?
Multiple myeloma is currently not curable, but we can manage the disease effectively for years. For active myeloma, treatment may include chemotherapy, proteasome inhibitors, immune-modifying drugs or other medications, or stem cell transplantation. Treatments can bring the disease into remission, but it often returns…
What is a typical multiple myeloma prognosis?
As with all cancers, the prognosis for multiple myeloma depends on many factors. These include how well the patient is able to do certain activities of daily living, as well as other health problems they might have. Also important is how much myeloma is present, how far it has spread, and the specific type and subtype.
We have made a great deal of progress in the past two decades, thanks to the development of more effective drugs. The overall five-year survival rate for people with active multiple myeloma in the United States has increased steadily over time, to more than 62% today…