Multiple Myeloma an incurable disease, but I have spent the last 25 years in remission using a blend of conventional oncology and evidence-based nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle therapies from peer-reviewed studies that your oncologist probably hasn't told you about.
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Do myeloma patients & caregivers think differently? According to the study linked below- yes, they do. I’ve been both a cancer patient and a caregiver (for my mom in assisted living). Believe
Continue reading“Even decades after treatment, multiple myeloma (MM) survivors tire more easily than people with no history of the disease, according to new research.” Conventional cancer treatement for the
Continue readingAccording to research, approximately 50% of newly diagnosed myeloma patients (NDMM) present with kidney involvement. Myeloma kidney is the commonly used term for this situation. The point of this post
Continue readingCan 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 readingChemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a common side effect not only in Ovarian Cancer patients but all cancer patients. In my experience, it is the chemotherapy regimen that causes this
Continue reading“Concern over long-term side effects of radiation therapy is becoming more common, as survival rates improve. Just as there can be long-term side effects of chemotherapy, radiation therapy may result
Continue readingDoes quercetin synergize the chemotherapy drug velcade (bortezomib) in the treatment of multiple myeloma? While your average oncologist may say no, studies say yes. I am holding out the anti-supplement
Continue readingWhat does the term “remission” mean to cancer patients? I ask this because people who live with my cancer, multiple myeloma, are in and out of remission for their entire lives. The technical
Continue readingAn Autologous Stem Cell Transplant (ASCT) is a component of the FDA standard-of-care therapy plan for all newly diagnosed myeloma patients. An ASCT is high dose, aggressive chemotherapy. As a medical
Continue readingWill 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 readingHi David- So, I had biopsy a few weeks ago and follow up meeting with my doctor. Now, biopsy results are good (attached) and my doctor says she wants to take me off low-dose Revlimid maintenance (LDRM)
Continue reading“Second Primary Malignancy (SPM) is not a phenomenon of cancer recurrence or metastasis, but it is suffering from another cancer (different from first primary malignancy)” I was diagnosed with
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