A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

Cellular therapies that harness a patient’s own immune system to identify and eliminate cancer cells are rapidly expanding ...

Treatment of symptomatic patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) is dictated by risk-stratification and eligibility for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Progression-free survival ...

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 ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood cells are produced. Over time, myeloma cells cause damage to bones, kidneys, ...

A map of the immune cell landscape found in the bone marrow of patients with multiple myeloma could shed light on how the immune system interacts with cancerous plasma cells. It could also help ...

William “Ed” Carruthers, 73, was on vacation in Arizona when he noticed some pain in his back. He thought it was an injury to a disc in his spine. Three weeks later, when Carruthers got his blood work ...

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a blood test that could transform the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple myeloma (MM) and its precursor conditions. The new method, known ...