Pain in the lower back
Accidental fracture
anaemia
nephropathy
These seemingly unrelated symptoms may come from the same disease.
International Myeloma Care Month is held in March. Among them, there is a blood system disease that is highly prevalent in the elderly - multiple myeloma, which may not be often heard of, but it is a malignant blood tumor that exceeds the incidence of acute leukemia.
Common symptoms include damage to myeloma-related organ functions, such as increased calcium, impaired renal function, anemia, bone disease, and damage to target organs such as amyloidosis, threatening long-term survival.
As the mainland gradually enters an aging society, the number of people with multiple myeloma in the mainland will further rise. The cause of the disease is hidden and easily misdiagnosed as low back pain, and Ms. Liu, a 53-year-old patient with multiple myeloma, suffered from this in the early stages of the disease.
In 2018, Ms. Liu found back pain, plaster patch did not relieve the relief after seeking medical treatment, tossed between orthopedics and pain department, after a doctor's reminder to do blood-related tests, only to be diagnosed with multiple myeloma, nearly a year after the first pain symptoms have passed.
Under the standard treatment regimen of the triptych regimen, Ms. Liu's pain symptoms gradually weakened. Because of her physical conditions, she received an autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
However, the harsh reality is also in front of us: spontaneous myeloma is still incurable, and if long-term standardized treatment is not paid attention to, patients can easily cause recurrence. After a year of transplantation, because I had not taken medicine for three months, some indicators were detected and some abnormalities were detected. Knowing that ms. Liu was greatly hit after the relapse, under the guidance of doctors and the encouragement of her family, Ms. Liu changed to a new treatment plan and her condition stabilized again.
At present, Ms. Liu has resumed work, and her former hobbies such as playing table tennis and writing brush characters have been picked up again. Relying on the home oral treatment plan and regular follow-up examinations in the hospital, avoiding the impact of sporadic epidemics on hospitalization, Ms. Liu has lived like a normal person.
With the continuous introduction of innovative therapies and the improvement of testing methods, while adhering to long-term standardized treatment and follow-up, Ms. Liu and her attending doctors are full of confidence in the future. "In the future, multiple myeloma is likely to become a chronic tumor that can be cured." Professor Sun Chunyan of Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology finally emphasized.
The program will be broadcast on Sunday, March 27, 8:30 "Medical Talk home" program on the Shanghai Tv News Comprehensive Channel, so stay tuned.