Multiple myeloma (medical condition): A rare malignant cancer that occurs in the bone marrow. More common in skull, spine, rib cage, pelvis and legs.
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Multiple myeloma: A type of cancer that begins in plasma cells (white blood cells that produce antibodies). Also called Kahler’s disease, myelomatosis, or plasma cell myeloma.
Source: National Institute of Health
Multiple myeloma: myeloma that develops in several places at the same time.
Source: WordNet 2.1
Multiple myeloma: A bone marrow-based plasma cell neoplasm characterized by a serum monoclonal protein and skeletal destruction with osteolytic lesions, pathological fractures, bone pain, hypercalcemia, and anemia. Clinical variants include non-secretory myeloma, smoldering myeloma, indolent myeloma, and plasma cell leukemia. (WHO, 2001) -- 2003
Source: Diseases Database
Multiple myeloma: malignant neoplasm of plasma cells usually arising in the bone marrow and manifested by skeletal destruction, bone pain, and the presence of anomalous immunoglobulins.
Source: CRISP
Multiple myeloma: A malignant tumor of plasma cells usually arising in the bone marrow; characterized by diffuse involvement of the skeletal system, hyperglobulinemia, Bence-Jones proteinuria, and anemia.
Source: MeSH 2007
These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Multiple myeloma:
Multiple myeloma is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Multiple myeloma, or a subtype of Multiple myeloma,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Multiple myeloma (medical condition): See Multiple Myeloma (disease information).
»Introduction: Multiple Myeloma
»Symptoms of Multiple Myeloma
»Treatments for Multiple Myeloma
Multiple myeloma: Multiple myeloma is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
Myeloma cells tend to collect in the bone marrow and in the hard, outer part of bones. Sometimes they collect in only one bone and form a single mass, or tumor , called a plasmacytoma . In most cases, however, the myeloma cells collect in many bones, often forming many tumors and causing other problems. When this happens, the disease is called multiple myeloma. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Multiple Myeloma: NCI)
Myeloma cells tend to collect in the bone marrow and in the hard, outer part of bones. Sometimes they collect in only one bone and form a single mass, or tumor , called a plasmacytoma . In most cases, however, the myeloma cells collect in many bones, often forming many tumors and causing other problems. When this happens, the disease is called multiple myeloma. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Multiple Myeloma: NCI)
Multiple myeloma (symptom): Myeloma cells tend to collect in the bone marrow and in the hard, outer part of bones. Sometimes they collect in only one bone and form a single mass, or tumor , called a plasmacytoma . In most cases, however, the myeloma cells collect in many bones, often forming many tumors and causing other problems. When this happens, the disease is called multiple myeloma. (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Multiple Myeloma: NCI)
Multiple myeloma (symptom): See Multiple myeloma (symptom information).
These medical disease topics may be related to Multiple myeloma:
Source: Diseases Database
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - CRISP
Source - WordNet 2.1
Source: CRISP
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Multiple myeloma into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: WordNet 2.1
Source: Diseases Database
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