that goes down. you don t make enough red cells, you get anemia and you get fatigue and tired. you have lesions meaning that the bone is going to say it s enough. in the rest, you will have severe bone pape. you have fatigue and bone pain and your calcium goes up and it s funny. you will have too much calcium and you get renal failure. your kidney function goes down because it affects your kidneys. aar f team innia a ini ini inin bone pain. i want to add one thing. the proteins that the plasma cells make are atypical and heavy. it s supposed to be antibodies and it is supposed to be our
how do you detect it and what is the diagnosis. about 1% of cancers of multiple myeloma. unfortunately 10,000 people die from this. it starts from bone marrow. a lot of people don t know what it is. it s the soft part in the middle of the bone. theso the simple way to think of this is the federal bank. you have dollars and euro. when you print out a lot of dollars, the value of the others go down. that s what happens in the bone marrow. you start producing a lot of plasma cells. it s a cancer of plasma cells that are supposed to make the soldiers to defend us, but they are going out of synch. you have a lot of dollars being printed. not the value of the rest.
back to a drug we discarded and it cuts down blow flow to these plasma cells. we use bone marrow transplant and after we wipe out the bone marrow, we re able to replace it with a person s own cells that have been cleansed of the cancer cells. so, it s made a dramatic change in this disease. no longer the uniform killer. how do they detect it? how do you know you have that type of cancer? you will get the urine protein. you get your urine and get your blood and your urine test and your blood test and basically look for the spike of some of the proteins that marc is talking about. i want to make sure that people know about this international myeloma foundation and you can call, 1-800-452-2873 and i ll post this on my facebook. 1-800-452-2872. a foundation that reaches out to a lot of people and a lot of
want to kill all the various cells within the bone marrow. you want to kill out the plasma cells, which are the cancerous cells and recreate the marrow. it s a long involved process. that s the type of treatment he s undergoing. it that chemotherapy? it s a type of chemotherapy. the chemotherapy is targeting the cells within the bone marrow. the problem is you need good cells in the bone marrow. white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets. eventually you have to give those cells back to the body. if for a time period the patient doesn t have enough cells and you have to eventually give those back slowly. he s obviously a very active guy. the fact he s continued to work on projects for nbc news throughout the treatment what does that tell you? there are all sorts of symptoms the people develop. it depends on what stage they are. if it was caught early it wouldn t be that surprising. . i could tell you one of the
type of cancer is you basically want to kill all the various cells within the bone marrow. you want to kill out the plasma cells, which are the cancerous cells and give more cells to re-create the bone marrow. it s a long involved process. that s the type of treatment he s undergoing. it that chemotherapy? it s a type of chemotherapy. the chemotherapy is targeting the cells within the bone marrow. the problem is you need good cells in the bone marrow. white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets. eventually you have to give those cells back to the body. if for a time period the patient doesn t have enough cells and you have to eventually give those back slowly. he s a very active guy. the fact that he s continued to work throughout the treatment, what does that tell you? there are all sorts of symptoms the people develop. it depends on what stage they are. if it was caught early it wouldn t be that surprising. i could tell you one of the earliest symptoms people develop