Multiple myeloma

Multiple Myeloma - Follow-Up Care

ON THIS PAGE: You will read about your medical care after cancer treatment is completed and why this follow-up care is important. Use the menu to see other pages.

Care for people diagnosed with myeloma does not end when active treatment has finished. Your health care team will continue to check that the cancer has not come back, manage any side effects, and monitor your overall health. This is called follow-up care.

Multiple Myeloma - Diagnosis

ON THIS PAGE: You will find a list of common tests, procedures, and scans that doctors use to find the cause of a medical problem. Use the menu to see other pages.

Doctors use many tests to find, or diagnose, cancer. They also do tests to learn if cancer has spread to another part of the body from where it started. If the cancer has spread, it is called metastasis. Doctors may also do tests to learn which treatments could work best.

Multiple Myeloma - Statistics

ON THIS PAGE: You will find information about the estimated number of people who will be diagnosed with multiple myeloma each year. You will also read general information on surviving the disease. Remember, survival rates depend on several factors, and no 2 people with cancer are the same. Use the menu to see other pages.

Advisory Panel

Cancer.Net's advisory panelists review content as part of the Cancer.Net Editorial Board. View the list below of medical, surgical, radiation, and pediatric oncologists, physician assistants, oncology nurses, social workers, and patient advocates that make up this advisory panel. Click on the advisory panelists' names below to view individual COI disclosures.

Cancer.Net Breast Cancer Advisory Panelists

Deborah Axelrod, MD, FACS
New York University Medical Center

Pamela J. DiPiro, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 

Español

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Multiple myeloma