Diagnosed with Cancer? Your two greatest challenges are understanding cancer and understanding possible side effects from chemo and radiation. Knowledge is Power!
Learn about conventional, complementary, and integrative therapies.
Dealing with treatment side effects? Learn about evidence-based therapies to alleviate your symptoms.
Click the orange button to the right to learn more.
Search Results for: Multiple Myeloma
Chemotherapy-Induced CardioVascular Disease
“…deaths from cardiovascular disease among cancer patients…has shown that more than one in ten cancer patients do not die from their cancer but from heart and blood vessel problems instead…” The
Continue readingPediatric Cancer- Chemo-Induced Heart, Brain
“Eight of 10 pediatric cancer survivors had abnormal findings on brain, heart, and bone images, including six patients with and two patients without clinical symptoms.” Though the study linked
Continue readingWhy Nutrition Is Considered A Crucial Part Of Fitness?
I am a long-term multiple myeloma (MM) survivor. I live with several long-term treatment-related side effects. As such I work hard to maintain my health. Nutrition is a crucial part of fitness according
Continue readingSMM, Stage 1 Longer Prognosis
Standard-risk patients should never be undertreated, as they derive the highest relative benefit from using the best available registered therapies. (Oncology and I disagree…) Hi David – I
Continue readingRecommended Lifestyle Changes For A Healthy Body
My name is David Emerson. I am a long-term survivor of an incurable blood cancer called multiple myeloma. I can tell you without a doubt that the lifestyle changes outlined below are central to how I have
Continue readingSteroid-Induced Shoulder Avascular, Osteonecrosis: I.D. Therapies
Steroid-induced shoulder avascular or osteonecrosis is one of a string of long-term and late stage side effects that occurred during the years after my conventional therapies following my multiple myeloma
Continue readingCan MGUS Kill You?
“…our findings offer strong support for the view that in some individuals, monoclonal gammopathy has the potential to cause systemic disease resulting in wide-ranging organ/tissue damage and
Continue readingCauda Equina Syndrome in Solitary Bone Plasmacytoma?
“…plasma cell proliferation results in a solitary lesion (solitary bone plasmacytoma or extramedullary plasmacytoma…acute cauda equina syndrome (CES) secondary to solitary bone plasmacytoma
Continue readingCurcumin- Kills MM, Integrative, Protective
According to research 95% of all MM is diagnosed at stage 2 or 3, that is to say advanced. MM is difficult to see coming. Therefore stabilizing MM patients is oncology’s priority. The standard-of-care
Continue readingMGUS and Genetic Risk-
“The increased risk of multiple myeloma (MM) in relatives of individuals with MGUS is consistent with MGUS being a marker of inherited genetic susceptibility to MM…” You or a family-member has
Continue readingMGUS, SMM, MM Kidney Health
“Renal Impairment represents an independent negative prognostic factor in MM…Renal recovery and haematologic response are the strongest markers associated with patient survival… Targeting
Continue readingSMM – Chemo vs. Observation Trial
“The frequency of second primary malignancies was higher in patients in the treatment group than in those in the observation group (six of 63 patients)..” Early or deferred treatment of smoldering
Continue reading