Early Detection

There are some boilerplate symptoms common to all of us. Shortness of breath, weight loss, what may feel like aching muscles, excessive fatigue, or sharp bone pain are all strong indicators. You may not necessarily experience the onset of all of these symptoms at once, but if any of these things persist for more than a week or so, I would go straight to your primary care physician and ask for some blood tests to be run.

Poor healthcare habits don’t bring on this sort of cancer as it stems from a genetic defect; however, having a clean, well-balanced diet, combined with a regular exercise regimen, will give you a fighting chance of extending your life beyond the average as a Myeloma patient, as it would for any other cancer type.

Sadly, the “American Diet” of fast and processed foods has become a global staple. Along with it, high levels of childhood obesity and type II diabetes, which can lead to cancer. I think one way we can help reduce these rates is by introducing food education in schools, but transferring this to the home kitchen is challenging for lower-income families, particularly time-poor single parents.