"While available drugs can push the disease into temporary remission, fatal, uncontrolled cell division always re-emerges over time. Until now, the cellular mechanism driving this relapse has remained unclear."
That's a pretty tough nut to swallow.
I've been informed that people live one year, others live 10 years. The late Geraldine Ferraro battled longer than 10 years with MM. She was older at the time of her diagnosis than I was when I received mine, but she didn't take any nonsense from Myeloma and slugged it out to the end.
I'm beginning to understand that Multiple Myeloma is always a fatal disease. The first remission is considered fairly routine and predictable. It's the relapses that really screw things up. The whole situation changes once there is relapse and things always look a little bit darker.
Because multiple myeloma is ultimately fatal, people with multiple myeloma are likely to benefit from discussions of end-of-life care that involve their doctors and appropriate family and friends
A sentence like that is hard to read without feeling some sort of negative reaction, right? But when I look at what's been done in just the last five years in the battle against MM, I'm determined to do anything I can to stick around, survive as long as possible and see what the medical magicians pull out of the hat over the next five.
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