Episode 041: Myeloma Series, Pt.2 - Intro to MGUS and Smoldering Myeloma
The Fellow on Call: The Heme/Onc Podcast
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How to Stratify Patients With Multiple Aeloma
The risk of progression to multiple myeloma at 20 years for patients with MGUS is 58%. If only one of the risk factors was present, it was 21%. And if none of those risk factors were present, so you had a very low risk MGUS, the risk of developing myeloma was only 2%. So what this means is, well, if I have really low risk of gettingMultiple Myeloma, only 2% risk over 20 years. It's scary for them to come to see a hematologist knowing that there's some abnormality in their blood and they hear things about Multiple Myeloma.
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