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What Is Multiple Myeloma Cancer and Is It Curable? - The New York Times
Oct 18, 2021 36 secs

Treatments include chemotherapy, radiation and stem cell transplants, in which the cells in a person’s bone marrow are deliberately destroyed and new cells are infused to repopulate the marrow.

Those replacement cells could be the patient’s own blood-forming marrow cells, removed and stored before the marrow is destroyed, or they could be cells from a closely related donor.

Stem cell transplants with the patient’s own cells can put the disease into remission, but it eventually returns.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a treatment designed to directly attack the cancer by harnessing the T cells of the patient’s own immune system, or by using drugs designed to block particular molecules on the surface of cancer cells

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