When our plasma cells start producing a single cancer-causing protein rather than an array of antibody-like proteins to protect us, it's one of two arms of the Y-shaped protein that's likely to blame.

When it comes to diagnosing a condition in which the plasma cells that normally make antibodies to protect us instead become cancerous, it may be better to look at the urine as well as the serum of ...

Okay, this is gonna sound complicated at first, but bear with me and let’s see if we can’t make it a bit easier… So, a diagnosis of multiple myeloma usual involves a blood test known as a “Serum Free ...

Elie Fahed, MD: I was waiting to get my paperwork in order, and you were seeing a local doctor, Dr. Alan Grosset. He was helping you, and he did the bone marrow biopsy and then the MRI. Mark Ayen: He ...

ON paper electrophoresis, the serum proteins of many patients with multiple myeloma are characterized by a single M component consisting of globulin molecules of uniform electrophoretic mobility. M ...

Monoclonal gammopathies represent a broad differential diagnosis and require a thorough evaluation for clinical significance. Smoldering multiple myeloma is a clinical entity that does not require ...