I am a U.S. citizen, married to an Italian, and I live in Florence, Italy. In 1999 I was diagnosed with benign MGUS, which finally progressed to (malignant) multiple myeloma or MM in late 2005.
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We have two (fake…but very good quality fake!) Xmas trees. In the past few years we have used only the smaller one, which fits nicely on one of our dining room cabinets. The second one is a tall and very handsome tree…more than two meters high. But...
A friend of mine, who has just had his second autologous stem cell transplant here in Italy, wrote me a note this morning about a paper presented at the recent ASH meeting on gadolinium, which is used as a contrast agent in MRIs. The paper (see:...
A blog reader, thank you!, sent me the link to an online educational resource with continuously updated information on serum free light chain and Hevylite™ analysis set up and maintained by a Binding Site scientific team:...
This is a continuation of yesterday’s post. Well, knock me down with a cat’s whisker! I am really pleased with what I found on PubMed: quite a few studies on multiple myeloma and vitamin D levels. Almost 100, in fact! I don’t have time to go...
A new study has found that the amount of vitamin D in patients being treated for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma was strongly associated with cancer progression and overall survival. After rereading that sentence for the hundredth time, I realized how...
Margaret's Corner is a blog that is full of sound information about alternative treatments for MM. Her writing is concise,her research impeccable, and she manages to maintain her sense of humor on a subject that is not really funny!
