Multiple myeloma is a rare type of blood cancer that starts in your plasma cells. Your plasma cells are a type of white blood cell inside your bone marrow, the soft inner part of your bones. If you ...

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 ...

Your survival rate for multiple myeloma is likely higher in earlier stages. Younger people often have better outcomes due to ...

Women and stage 2 multiple myeloma patients report higher psychological distress at initial consultations. Non-Hispanic Black patients and those in socially vulnerable neighborhoods are less likely to ...

Using nationwide electronic health record (EHR) and cancer registry data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse, we developed and validated a rule-based NLP algorithm to extract oncologist-determined MM ...

Smoldering multiple myeloma is an asymptomatic, precancerous condition with abnormal plasma cells and elevated monoclonal protein levels. Smoldering multiple myeloma is a complex, intermediary stage ...