Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) is a precancerous condition affecting white blood cells, called plasma cells, in the bone marrow. It can turn into multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer that can ...

How Does Multiple Myeloma Impact the Kidneys? Multiple myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of immune cell found in bone marrow. Healthy plasma cells make proteins called antibodies to fight ...

Staging is when a system is used to identify and describe how far a cancer has spread in your body. Knowing the stage of your multiple myeloma helps your physicians predict which treatments are most ...

It’s important to know that at first, multiple myeloma may not cause any symptoms. Usually, it is only suspected after a routine blood test shows an abnormality. After the disease has progressed, ...

Teclistamab plus daratumumab delivers unprecedented progression-free survival benefits over standard of care in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, while raising important questions about how best ...

There are now two very powerful but very different approaches that can be considered as early as first relapse for patients ...

Follow along on our guide to Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow's infection-fighting plasma cells. As cancerous plasma cells build up in bone marrow, they crowd out healthy blood cells, ...

The goal of treatment for multiple myeloma (MM) is to achieve a deep and sustained response while minimizing treatment-related toxicity and improving quality of life. The treatment may typically ...