Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma is a disorder in which plasma cells are produced in an uncontrolled and invasive (malignant) fashion. Plasma cells develop from lymphocytes, a type of white blood cel...
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The head of the largest program tracking the health of World Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell cancers, raising fears that cancer will become a "third wave" of i...
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Keyboardist and songwriter Richard Bell, who played with Janis Joplin, has died of cancer in a Toronto hospital. He was 61.Bell died June 15 after a long battle with multiple myeloma, said his long...
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Exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam may lead to high blood pressure in some veterans, but the evidence is limited and only suggestive, the Institute of Medicine said Friday.The IOM, an arm of the N...
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Cancers of the blood and bone marrow are difficult to treat. But Celgene says its research and development team is making progress.The biotechnology firm's flagship drug Revlimid has been approved ...
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Danny Finegood, a prankster famous for his creative alterations of the Hollywood sign, has died.Finegood died Monday of multiple myeloma at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, according to his w...
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Retired Gen. Wayne Downing, one of President Bush's key counterterrorism advisers after the Sept. 11 attacks, died Wednesday, a coroner said. He was 67.The four-star general was admitted to the hos...
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Retired Gen. Wayne Downing, one of President Bush's key counterterrorism advisers after the Sept. 11 attacks, died Wednesday, a coroner said. He was 67.The four-star general was admitted to the hos...
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Exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam may lead to high blood pressure in some veterans, but the evidence is limited and only suggestive, the Institute of Medicine said Friday.The IOM, an arm of the N...
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Exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam may lead to high blood pressure in some veterans, but the evidence is limited and only suggestive, the Institute of Medicine said Friday.The IOM, an arm of the N...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug used to treat bone
marrow cancer may also help treat osteoporosis by stimulating
stem cells, U.S. researchers reported Friday. They found that Velcade, made by Millen...
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Multiple Myeloma
Doctor sees blood cancers in WTC program
