Who knows anything about multiple myeloma? BIL is currently being tested for it. I can read medical sources of course, but anyone have experience?
Plenty. What are you looking to know? It’s very treatable but it doesn’t always work.
My brother has it. It’s common in people who lived by farming areas and is believed to be tied to farm chemicals.
Tom Brokaw was diagnosed with that in 2013. He is still going.
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Don’t really have specific questions yet, I know almost nothing, except I am reading up.
Looks treatable, not curable.
He lives in NW Arkansas.
Some of the best doctors for it are in Arkansas. They the Silicon Valley of multiple myeloma treatment. That’s no joke. As I said, it’s tied to rural people.
Normally it has an onset in the 60+.
It use to be a death sentence. Now, it very treatable. If he responds well, he should expect a normal lifespan.
15 years ago, it was maybe 3-5 years. The treatment has grown exponentially.
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He’s in NW AR, about a half our north of Fayetteville. Actually, he’s currently in a Fayetteville hospital.
I was asking my sister earlier if his dad had served in Vietnam, bc I’m reading that Agent Orange exposure is a risk factor. Seems he wasn’t there.
Agent orange was a herbicide. That’s the common tie
How does multiple myeloma lead to a hole in the intestine?
Emergency surgery last night.
It doesn’t. I would suspect he is on chemo which can cause that issue.
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