Conquering The Multiple Myeloma Continuum Series One

This article summarizes the views of the patients regarding their experiences with current treatments and other issues related to cancer care.

Over the past 10 years, treatment options for patients with multiple myeloma have increased dramatically. These advances have resulted in improved survival rates for patients and an increased focus on the patient’s quality of life that have fueled the important development and use of oral treatments in recent years, a trend that is expected to continue.

Now more than ever, patients with multiple myeloma have unprecedented numbers of treatment options to choose from for their deadly plasma-cell neoplastic diseases.

Instead of receiving cancer treatments in a hospital or outpatient setting, many patients are now being treated in the comfort of their own home with oral pills that they administer themselves.