Multiple Myeloma

[heypeg]

I'm not really sure what this is.

[dreamyxo]

If he doesn't want treatment that's up to him it's his body his life.  Nothing you can do or say to make him do anything so wish him well and be done with it.  He's your neighbor not your child.  He's not your responsibility.

[cadence4u]

Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that starts with one or more changes to the DNA of a single stem cell in the bone marrow. Stem cells form blood cells (white cells, red cells and platelets).

Myeloma develops in a white blood cell called a B cell. Some B cells transform plasma cells, which make antibodies – these are the cells that fight a wide range of infections. In myeloma, an injury to a B cell’s DNA causes an abnormal change that can start the transformation of a normal plasma cell into a cancerous cell. Because cancerous cells multiply at a faster rate than normal cells and don’t die when they should, one antibody will grow out of control and eventually crowd out other plasma cells.

https://www.myelomacrowd.org/what-is-multiple-myeloma/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIioyczauM4QIV5R6tBh2DEAzKEAAYAyAAEgJ8svD_BwE