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  2. Multiple myeloma - Wikipedia

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    MGUS is a relatively stable condition afflicting 3% of people aged 50 and 5% of people aged 70; it progresses to multiple myeloma at a rate of 0.5–1% cases per year; smoldering multiple myeloma does so at a rate of 10% per year for the first 5 years, but then falls off sharply to 3% per year for the next 5 years and thereafter to 1% per year.

  3. Myeloma protein - Wikipedia

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    Serum protein electrophoresis showing a paraprotein (spike/peak in the gamma zone) in a patient with multiple myeloma.. A myeloma protein is an abnormal antibody (immunoglobulin) or (more often) a fragment thereof, such as an immunoglobulin light chain, that is produced in excess by an abnormal monoclonal proliferation of plasma cells, typically in multiple myeloma or Monoclonal gammopathy of ...

  4. Category:Deaths from multiple myeloma - Wikipedia

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    People who died from the plasma cell cancer multiple myeloma. Myeloma is a form of what is commonly known as "blood cancer". See: Category:People with multiple myeloma for those currently living with the disease.

  5. Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance - Wikipedia

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    At the Mayo Clinic, MGUS transformed into multiple myeloma or similar lymphoproliferative disorders at the rate of about 1–2% a year, or 17%, 34%, and 39% at 10, 20, and 25 years, respectively, of follow-up—among surviving patients. However, because they were elderly, most patients with MGUS died of something else and did not go on to ...

  6. Waldenström macroglobulinemia - Wikipedia

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    Five-year survival rates for these categories are 87%, 68%, and 36%, respectively. [82] The corresponding median survival rates are 12, 8, and 3.5 years. [83] The International Prognostic Scoring System for Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia has been shown to be reliable. [84] It is also applicable to patients on a rituximab-based treatment ...

  7. Comedian D.L. Hughley brings awareness to rising multiple ...

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    According to the International Myeloma Foundation, Black people will make up nearly a quarter (24%) of all newly diagnosed cases by 2034 if nothing is done — an astonishing rate given that Black ...

  8. A healthy, 27-year-old father of 3 died of the flu. These ...

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    Quenten Thomas, 27, a father of three young kids in Maryville, Tennessee, died last week due to complications of the flu. A healthy, 27-year-old father of 3 died of the flu. These were his first ...

  9. Category : Deaths from multiple myeloma in the United States

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    Deaths from multiple myeloma in California (40 P) Pages in category "Deaths from multiple myeloma in the United States" The following 167 pages are in this category, out of 167 total.