Multiple myeloma is a formidable diagnosis meaning a cancer. How Mieloma is diagnosed? The answer to this question you will find in this article.
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Multiple myeloma is an oncological disease at which an uncontrolled accumulation occurs «Myeloma» (plasma) cells in the bone marrow leading to the destruction of bone tissue.
Pulse multiple myeloma predominantly people over 40 years old.
Several species of multiple myeloma. Multiple myeloma can be represented with focal form,
diffuse or diffuse focal damage to skeleton bones. Forecast V
Much depends on the stage of the disease.
diffuse or diffuse focal damage to skeleton bones. Forecast V
Much depends on the stage of the disease.
Multiple myeloma can leak like sluggish («smoldering»),
Active or aggressive. The selection of the optimal treatment program is possible
Only on the basis of an accurate diagnosis of the disease.
The main symptoms of multiple myeloma include:
- pain in the bones and spine;
- weakness, fatigue;
- tendency to infections;
- Disorders of the kidney function.
The diagnosis of multiple myeloma helps to put:
- Medical examination.
- General and biochemical blood tests.
- Radiological examination of the bones of the skull, pelvis, spine, etc.
- Bone marrow research (aspiration biopsy and trepalobiopsy). In the sample of the bone marrow, obtained from sternum or iliac bone, with multiple myeloma reveals the replacement of normal cells with tumor: plasma cells with abnormal signs.
- Special immunological study - blood and urine protein immunoelectroporesis. Immunoelectrophorenesis allows you to determine what type of multiple myeloma has a given disease, which is important in determining the forecast and the choice of optimal treatment.
- Study of special protein β2 -Mikroglobulina.
Additional studies of multiple myeloma: cytogenetic, molecular, etc.
After the diagnosis is diagnosed, the treatment of multiple myeloma patients should be started as quickly as possible.
