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Multiple Myeloma

Multiple Myeloma Introduction
Multiple Myeloma Treatment
Multiple Myeloma Symptoms
Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis
Multiple Myeloma Staging

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What is Multiple Myeloma?

Multiple myeloma is a hematologic malignancy that originates from plasma cells, a type of white blood cell produced in the bone marrow. Normal plasma cells are responsible for producing antibodies against infection, while cancerous plasma cells—myeloma cells—proliferate in the bone marrow, causing the patient to be unable to live a normal life and suffer from symptoms such as anemia, bone pain, fractures, decreased immunity, and hypercalcemia. symptoms, proteinuria, and renal insufficiency. The incidence of multiple myeloma is about 2 in 100,000, and it is considered the second most common malignant tumor of the blood. It commonly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people, with a high incidence in the 50-65 age group. In recent years, the age of onset has tended to be earlier. The incidence rate of men is more than that of women, with a male to female ratio of 1.6:1. With the increase of age, the incidence of multiple myeloma will also increase, which has constituted more and more serious harm to people's life and quality of life.

So can middle and late-staged multiple myeloma be treated? Minimally invasive techniques with less side effects and less trauma can help multiple myeloma patients avoid surgical resection, avoid suffering from traditional radiotherapy and chemotherapy, effectively prolong survival and improve quality of life.

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Multiple Myeloma Traditional Treatment Methods

Surgical treatmentSurgery to remove cancerous tissue and clean cervical lymph nodes that may have metastasis.
Radiation TherapyRadiation therapy for follicular adenocarcinoma.
chemotherapyOften used as palliative therapy for inoperable or distantly metastatic advanced cancer.
Chinese treatmentTraditional Chinese medicine therapy can inhibit the development of cancer, improve the immune function of patients with thyroid cancer, and reduce the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Multiple Myeloma Treatment Technology

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Radiofrequency Ablation

Radiofrequency ablation, sometimes referred to as RFA, is a minimally invasive treatment for cancer. It is an image-guided technique that heats and destroys cancer cells.　Under the guidance of image,...

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DEB-TACE

Drug-eluting bead transcatheter arterial chemoembolization

Drug-eluting beads transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE) is an interventional therapy used in tumor treatment. It is a tiny sphere made of polymers or ceramics with a certain range of siz...

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Particle Knife

Particle knife (also called 125I Seed Implants) is applied to a variety of primary and metastatic tumors nowadays. 125I seeds are some small iodine radioactive particles that can give off short-range γ...

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Nanoknife Technology

Nanoknife is a brand-new cutting-edge ablation technology for tumor treatment. It breaks the membrane of tumor cells with high voltage pulses from electrode probes, resulting in multiple irreversible n...

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Combined Knife

Combined Knife, it’s not actual surgical knife, but a composite cryogenic freezing surgical system, which conduct cold and heat ablation treatment with liquid-nitrogen by one or more ablation needles...

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Cryotherapy

Cryotherapy, also named cryosurgery therapy or cryoablation, is a medical technique both ancient and modern....

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Interventional Therapy

Interventional therapy is a mini-invasive therapy performed under the guidance of medical imaging equipments. With a 1-2 millimeter incision, paracentesis can be performed with the lead of medical imag...

Multiple Myeloma Patients' Story

They come from different countries around the world, but they have experienced the same experience and endured the pain that cancer has brought to them. However, now, with the effective treatment and meticulous care of St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, they have rekindled their confidence in life and become anti-cancer fighters. Here, they share their anti-cancer experience, love and warmth with everyone.

Lung Cancer: Phuong Linh Nhi; Vietnammore than 3 years

Breast Cancer: Noraini; Malaysiamore than 5 years

lymphoma: Ina; IndonesiaMore than 1 year

rectal cancer: Nguyen Van Thanh; VietnamSurvive for more than 4 years

cervical cancer: Wei Ji; Indonesia

Esophageal cancer: PHAM DUC VIEN; VietnamSurvive for more than 2 years

Liver Cancer: Kaisone; LaosSurvive for 5 years

nasopharyngeal cancer: Mr. Tsang; Indonesia

Lung cancer: Ramli Rukiana; Indonesia

Lung Cancer: Ms. LEONG; MalaysiaMore than 1 year

MDT TEAM

: Song Shijun; Chief Expert of Oncology Department | Chief physician

: Peng Xiaochi; Director of Oncology Department | Chief Physician

: Dai Wenyan; Director of Oncology Department of Oncology, Director of Breast Cancer Center | Associate Chief Physician

: Ma Xiaoying; Director of Oncology Department | Associate Chief Physician

: Lin Jing; Deputy Director, International Oncology Ward | Attending Physician

: Wu Qingkai; Chief doctor | Attending Doctor

: Zhen Yanli; Director of Radiology Department | Associate Chief Physician

: Yin Pingshan; Distinguished expert of TCM Oncology | Chief Physician

: Zhao Yifan; Oncology Resident | Physician-in-Charge

: Qin Yubing; Attending physician ,Oncology Department | Attending physician

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Multiple Myeloma Symptoms

What are the symptoms of multiple myeloma?

Misdiagnosis rate of multiple myeloma reaches up to 40% to 50%, so the following are symptoms caused misdiagnosis:

Infection: patients are prone to develop respiratory tract infection or urinary tract infections. In advanced stage, infection is one of the main causes of death.

Anemia: it can be caused because the normal function of bone marrow in patients with multiple myeloma is restrained.

Skeletal symptoms: bone pain, local mass, fracture and even paraplegia, etc.

Hypercalcemia vomiting, weakness, confusion of consciousness, polyuria or constipation, etc can appear.

Blood hyperviscosity: dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, and sudden occurrence of consciousness disturbance, numbness of the fingers, etc can be caused.

Renal inadequacy: patients are often accompanied by renal inadequacy when being diagnosed.

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Multiple Myeloma Diagnosis

What are the diagnostic methods of multiple myeloma?

Based on clinical findings, nearly two thirds of patients have been in advanced stage at the first time of diagnosis and many patients had been misdiagnosed before due to going to the inappropriate departments. Experts from Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou remind you that when those symptoms such as bone pain, anemia, renal inadequacy, repeated infections appear, you should go to the department of hematology for check, thus early detection can effectively control the further development of your condition.

Patients who are highly suspected of multiple myeloma should timely carry out examinations such as tests of immunoglobulin and Bene Jones protein (BJP), X-ray and bone marrow examination. Multiple sites of X-ray examination can do a significant help on diagnosis, through which, destruction area of multiple circular bones in different size (especially the skull, ribs, vertebrae, and pelvis) can be found. When necessary, MRI, CT can be done. MRI examination can help to judge whether there is spinal cord compression; CT examination is conducive to display extramedullary lesions. Sometimes, a wide range of osteoporosis can be the only one X-ray finding for myeloma. In addition, confirmation of diagnosing multiple myeloma needs multiple sits of puncture or bone marrow biopsy.

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