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Chemotherapy Side Effects Cause Depression?
Can chemotherapy side effects cause depression? According to the research linked below, they can. Just as important, a cancer diagnosis itself can cause depression. What’s a cancer survivor to do!? I
Continue readingLight Chain Myeloma- Cure V. Control?
Dear Mr. Emerson: Thank God I have found a site like yours. I suffer from light chain myeloma diagnosed in January 2023. For 10 months I have undergone chemotherapy with Bortezomib, Dexamethasone, Cyclophosphamide
Continue readingChemotherapy-induced Hypertension (salt)
Chemotherapy-induced hypertension happened to me and I didn’t know it. This side effect of my chemotherapy was never discussed, I had never had hypertension before my chemotherapy and I was relatively
Continue readingCAR-T Side Effects for Myeloma
Are CAR-T side effects for myeloma any different than the side effects we’ve expeirenced and gotten to know for the chemo and radiation regimens we’ve already fought through? According to
Continue readingMGUS Diabetes Metformin
MGUS diabetes metformin may be a three magic words for people diagnosed with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS is a form of pre-myeloma) as well as diabetes. However, I believe it
Continue readingCyclophosphamide Cytoxan Damage
Will I die of cyclophosphamide (cytoxan) induced cardiomyopathy someday? Or maybe die of hemohorragic cystitis that leads to bladder cancer? Impossible to predict. I can say, however, that the chemotherapy
Continue readingPlasma Exchange Therapy, Plasmapheresis – Myeloma
Is plasma exchange therapy, sometimes called therapeutic plasma exchange or plasmapheresis beneficial for myeloma patients? If you are one of the 20%-40% of newly diagnosed myeloma patients with kidney
Continue readingProteinuria, Foamy Urine, Myeloma
Proteinuria and the foamy urine it creates is a common symptom of multiple myeloma patients. The challenge with this symptom, as well as many other symptoms of this incurable blood cancer, is that
Continue readingHyperviscosity Syndrome- Myeloma
“Hyperviscosity syndrome (HVS) is a rare complication of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) related to high tumour burden…Among MM patients, 3–6% experienced this complication at diagnosis
Continue readingMyeloma is Heterogeneous?
What does it mean to say that myeloma is heterogeneous? Or that myeloma is characterized by heterogeneity? To ask this a different way, what do this aspect of myeloma mean to MM patients and survivors? I
Continue readingMyeloma- Normalize K/L Ratio, Plasma cells
Many, if not all pre-myeloma as well as full myeloma patients would love to normalize their K/L ratio, reduce their plasma cells growing out-of-control in their bone marrow and improve impaired kidney
Continue readingPhoton-Counting CT Imaging- Myeloma
Is Photon-Counting CT imaging better than conventional CT for multiple myeloma patients? Meaning, can we see early lytic lesions while using less radiation? After all, bone involvement in multiple
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