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Back pain, deep fatigue, one infection after another, easy to wave off as age. Sometimes it's a treatable blood cancer that's been building for years before anyone names it.
After a certain age, every ache gets filed under "getting older." Sore back, no energy, catching whatever's going around, must be the years piling up. Usually it is. Sometimes it isn't.
Myeloma is one of the things that hides in that pile. It's a blood cancer, it tends to show up as vague complaints that are easy to dismiss, and it can be building for years before it has a name. Here's what it is, how it shows up, and what the last decade of treatment has changed.
Myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that lives in your bone marrow and normally makes antibodies to fight infection. In myeloma, one line of plasma cells copies itself out of control. Instead of useful antibodies, these cells pump out one useless one, over and over, called M-protein (Myeloma Canada, 2026).
Two problems follow. The faulty cells crowd out the healthy blood cells your marrow is supposed to be making, and the M-protein and other chemicals they release damage ...
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