For decades, the diagnosis of multiple myeloma required evidence of end-organ damage characterized by myeloma-defining events ...

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is not cancer. There’s a small risk it can become cancer. Out of every 100 people with MGUS, each year, 1 or 2 of them will get cancer from ...

Serum levels of polyclonal IgG, IgA and IgM are usually decreased in patients with multiple myeloma (MM); however, little is known about the prognostic significance of polyclonal levels of IgE in ...

Multiple myeloma is part of the spectrum of diseases ranging from MGUS to plasma cell leukemia, and similar to MGUS, is characterized by proliferation of a plasma cell clone and subsequent ...

Multiple myeloma is a rare blood cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow -- the soft, spongy interior of bone where all ...