Sentences with phrase «myeloma because»

two years back we discontinued it as he developed multiple myeloma because of the side effect of anti depressants... we did homeopathy for 6 months and then chemotherapy for one and half years.

Myeloma is often called multiple myeloma because it occurs at many sites within the bone marrow.

Myc inhibitors are thought to be promising treatments for multiple myeloma because they shut down a gene required for cell proliferation.

Not exact matches

The prognosis of myeloma patients with EMD behaves like other metastatic cancers and is extremely poor because its clinical course is very aggressive, Tse said.

The new candidate myeloma genes we identified in the African - American population may have been overlooked because of the lack of diversity in previous genomic efforts.»

Half of multiple myeloma patients diagnosed in the earliest stage of the disease don't survive beyond about five years after initial treatment because the cancer becomes resistant to treatments.

The findings are particularly noteworthy because drugs that act on the newly discovered target, a protein known as PIM1, are already in clinical trials for leukemia and multiple myeloma.

Although myeloma is, like leukemias and lymphomas, a cancer involving white blood cells known as lymphocytes, myeloma cells don't traditionally express CD19 on their surface because they arise from the most mature type of lymphocytes — plasma cells.

Because many diseases, such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and myelodysplasia, are more common in older patients, mini-HCTs allow these patients to potentially benefit from transplant.

Treatment — Because of the complex nature of multiple myeloma surgery, can not be attempted.