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Search Results for: Lymphoma
Black Cancer Survivors- Chemo Heart Failure
Black cancer survivors develop chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy (CIC) much more often than other cancer survivors according to the study linked and excerpted below. If you are African-American and are
Continue readingMonoclonal Gammopathies- Abnormal Proteins in the Blood
Monoclonal Gammopathies or monoclonal proteins IN the blood may or may not be MGUS Hi David- Can I message you directly regarding my situation? I am sick and not getting any good answers. My hematologist
Continue readingMultiple Myeloma CAR-T
“Personalized immunotherapy using a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) involves genetically modifying a patient’s own T cells so that they can identify and kill malignant plasma cells.10 The first
Continue readingThyroid Cancer- Second Primary Cancers
“Mukherjee and colleagues sought to determine whether oncologists and hematologists were overtreating with RAI in cases of WDTC, and thus putting their patients at risk for Second Primary Cancers.
Continue readingAYA, Pediatric Cancer Survivors
“These realizations allowed participants to piece together their understanding of cancer survivors and the health risks they now faced in a gradual way, months or even years after HCT…” Adolescent
Continue readingHeart Failure – Myeloma Symptom, Side Effect-
“MM can cause cardiac comorbidities such as cardiomyopathy and heart failure caused by cardiac amyloidosis and/or anemia. Some of the treatments used in MM can also affect cardiovascular health…” According
Continue readingCost of Surviving AYA Cancer- Suleika Jaouad
Between co-payments, out-of-network costs, the out-of-pocket costs of my AYA cancer care have already amounted to tens of thousands of dollars… Cancer patients don’t know what they don’t
Continue readingMyeloma- Intravenous Vitamin C Therapy
Intravenous vitamin C (ascorbic acid and L-ascorbic acid) therapy is the ideal integrative, complementary, non-toxic, evidence-based therapy for multiple myeloma patients and survivors. …at least
Continue readingMyeloma-Depression w/ Non-Toxic Therapy
“Depression was found in 40 percent of the (multiple myeloma) patients, and 3 out of 4 of those patients were never diagnosed or treated for it, researchers found…” It shouldn’t
Continue readingChemotherapy-induced CVD
Chemotherapy-induced CVD in AYA cancer survivors is a short, long-term and sometimes a late stage side effect of both chemotherapy and radiation. In 2016, Kaiser Permanente published a peer-reviewed study
Continue readingCoQ10 for Heart Disease- Prostate Cancer?
By September the pain from the prostate cancer bone metastases were negligible and I had been doing serious biking most of the summer. Hello David. Here’s my history: Diagnosed in 1992 at age
Continue readingSalvage Therapy for Myeloma does not help Progressive Disease…
“For myeloma patients with progressive disease (PD) after induction therapy, deepening of response through salvage therapy is not associated with improved progression-free or overall survival..” According
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