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Transcripts for CNN Anderson Cooper 360 20140212 06:30:00

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

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Transcripts for CNN Wolf 20140212 18:54:00

they x-ray all the bones and do blood tests that will give you an indication as well that you are dealing with multiple myeloma. it s definitive after that. what is the treatment? how do you deal with multiple myeloma. some are more aggressive than others. what is the treatment that tom brocaw is going through? the goal of treatment is to basically try to kill the cells in the bone marrow that cause the problem. the plasma cells. the problem is you don t want to kill the good cells as well. this is a problem with a lot of cancers. kill the bad things, try to leave the good things intact. often times it is a type of chemotherapy that targets the plasma cells and then if the other cells had been damage, the good cells, you have to reflenish them with bone marrow or stem cell transplants. there is no cure for this right now although i will say talking to colleagues over the last 24 hours, the treatments have

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Transcripts for CNN Wolf 20140212 18:53:00

this is known as plasma cells. you make too many of those and they start reproducing. that s what the cancer is here. two things happen. one is the plasma cells can cause problems in other places, but it crowds out the good cells. the red and white blood cells. those are the two problems. this particular type of cancer, again, multiple myeloma is known for the damage that it can cause to bone. we have a picture of what that looks like. these are very specific lesions. you can see them here with the holes in the skull. that s a result of the multiple myeloma. that s one of the most common things that people notice first. pain in their bones. often times in their back. then you take an x-ray or mri or whatever and you see a picture and can make that determination whether or not it is multiple myeloma? that s right. it s usually what s done and

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Transcripts for CNN New Day 20140212 12:47:00

starts growing out of control. they re called plasma cells. you develop too many of those sells which can affect the bone and cause bone fractures and other things in the body, but you also don t have enough of the other good cells. again, a pretty rare cancer, but it s also a cancer for which we don t have a cure. the treatments have improved over the last several years. so it s incurable but treatable. we ll talk about treatment in a second. he mentioned would that have been something that led him to - technically it s in the back. but that s a vague thing, right? a lot of people have back pain from time to time. the back pain may have been something that just didn t go away.

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