Dr. Gareth J. Morgan says new drugs are helping people with myeloma to live with good quality of life.
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Advances in the treatment of multiple myeloma are enabling people who receive a diagnosis of this disease to live 10 years or longer. About 60 percent of people are stable with good quality of life by the second or third year of remission, says Gareth J. Morgan, MD, PhD, director of multiple myeloma research at 嘿嘿视频 Health鈥檚 Perlmutter Cancer Center. Dr. Morgan discusses his approach to caring for people in remission and more on Patient Power鈥檚 Answers Now series.
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