Narrow subset of cells is responsible for metastasis in multiple myeloma, study finds

Monday, December 8, 2014 - 16:01 in Health & Medicine

Although it is among the most highly metastatic of all cancers, multiple myeloma is driven to spread by only a subset of the myeloma cells within a patient's body, researchers have found. The study suggests that attacking those subsets with targeted drugs may degrade the disease's ability to spread throughout the bone marrow of affected patients, the authors say.

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