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“Cardiotoxic treatment refers to the damage of heart muscles (cardiomyopathy) due to intake of chemotherapy drugs.” It isn’t the fact that many chemotherapy regimens are cardiot0xic aka
Continue reading“If you want to manage the factors that are within your control to prevent or delay age-related cognitive decline, spend some time and energy focusing on these three things…” I want to
Continue readingMy point is that there would be more AVN diagnoses if the average five-year survival for Multiple Myeloma patients was more than 51%. Hi David. I am an 18 year multiple myeloma survivor. I’ve had
Continue readingIncreasing dietary magnesium intake is associated with a reduced risk of stroke, heart failure, diabetes, and all-cause mortality, but not CHD or total CVD. I am a long-term cancer survivor. I have ignored
Continue reading“…greens turned out to be associated with the strongest protection against major chronic diseases, including a 20% reduction of stroke for every additional serving.” I live with an increased
Continue reading“Catheter ablation (for afib) volumes rose 2.5-fold during the study period…The overall in-hospital complication rate increased during the study period from 3.07% to 7.04%” I developed
Continue readingMy MM side effects of CIPN and RILP and resulting leg weakness began with my aggressive conventional therapies in ’95-’97 and have slowly progressed ever since. Chemotherapy-induced peripheral
Continue reading“AYA (and Pediatric Survivors) who undergo hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo, auto SCT) are at significant risk for long-term and late effects in survivorship.” Boy, is that an understatement.
Continue readingThis problem (weak evidence) is by no means unique to heart disease. Many medical decisions are based on weak evidence or even human hunches rather than high-quality evidence… Evidence-based medicine
Continue reading“Any tissue within the radiation field can experience (side effect) radiation fibrosis including nerves, muscles, blood vessels, bones, tendons, ligaments, heart or lungs.” Not every multiple
Continue readingIf you have multiple myeloma your plasma cells produce unhealthy antibodies called monoclonal proteins (M proteins). The accumulation of M proteins in your body can damage organs like your kidneys and
Continue readingThe 4 cardiovascular and thromboembolic diseases resulting in death in patients with MM were atherosclerosis (n = 88), heart disease (n = 3799), aortic aneurysm and dissection (n = 39), and cerebrovascular
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