Marrow and Bone: Multiple Myeloma Survivor Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts begin where myeloma usually begins: unexplained back pain, a fracture from nothing, anaemia, kidney numbers nobody could account for. Writers describe learning the language of light chains and M-spikes, induction therapy and the fog it brings, harvesting stem cells and the isolation of an autologous transplant, and the strange flatness of the weeks when counts crawl back. There are years of maintenance therapy and its quiet toll, neuropathy that outstays the drug that caused it, bone lesions and the radiotherapy that steadied them, and a scan-to-scan rhythm that eventually becomes ordinary. Later chapters hold the relapses, the switch to a new class of drug, CAR-T and bispecific antibodies as later lines, and the honest accounts of treatment that did not hold.

Who it's for

For people newly diagnosed with myeloma or MGUS, those approaching or recovering from transplant, and the families learning to live with a cancer measured in remissions.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 293 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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