How to Use myeloma in a Sentence

myeloma

noun
  • Multiple myeloma is a cancer that forms in white blood cells called plasma cells.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • There are three main types of blood cancer, leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, all of which affect the body's blood cells.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Grand beat the myeloma but the Hotel Myeloma joke lived on for 15 years.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This drug helps your immune system target certain substances on the surface of myeloma cells.
    — Sarah Hudgens, Health, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Scialfa has pulled back from touring since her myeloma diagnosis.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • All 20 patients who received the trial treatment no longer had any detectable myeloma cells in their body.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 20 Apr. 2026
  • His wife, Esin Ili Goknar, said the cause was multiple myeloma.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 5 June 2017
  • What treatments would someone like Scialfa undergo to treat their myeloma?
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that affects plasma cells, which are a category of white blood cells.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Galynn Brady was diagnosed with breast cancer and myeloma in 2016.
    — Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Multiple myeloma patients can live for many years with treatment, but it's not considered curable.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Parr earlier this year revealed that he had been diagnosed with incurable myeloma.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 15 Dec. 2025
  • But using the patient’s own stem cells was also risky because they might be contaminated with myeloma cells.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Doctors told him there has been no increase in myeloma markers since his previous round of extensive tests in May.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Finding blood cancer Blood cancers include leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
    — Claire Altschuler, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • Multiple myeloma is an incurable blood cancer arising from plasma cells in the bone marrow.
    — Jennifer Kite-Powell, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The cancer for the most part is not hereditary, but people whose sibling or parent had myeloma may have an elevated risk.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Currently both medicines are approved only for patients who have been treated for myeloma with four or more medications.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In addition to lymphoma, CAR-T is most often used for leukemia and myeloma.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The illness was detected in 30 patients with myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, Taylor said.
    — Charles Brandom, Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Roundup users that blame the product for causing their multiple-myeloma cancers get nothing under the settlement.
    — Tim Loh, Fortune, 25 May 2020
  • Bone marrow donations can be used in the treatment of life-threatening conditions, such as leukemia, myeloma, and lymphoma.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The five-year survival rate for myeloma, for example, nearly doubled (from 32% to 62%).
    — Marcos Magaña, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Now, after thalidomide treatment, one-third had declines in myeloma activity.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 8 May 2025
  • Certain cancer therapies can damage B-cells, as does having a blood cancer like lymphoma, leukemia, or myeloma.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells, suppresses the body's immune response.
    — Jamie Gangel and Jeremy Herb, CNN, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But the approach also is being tested for a range of diseases from non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma to solid tumors.
    — Laurie McGinley, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • These include colon, breast, kidney, myeloma, and liver cancer, as well as non-Hodgkin lymphoma and endometrial cancer.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • Doctors are reporting unprecedented success from a new cell and gene therapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that's on the rise.
    — Marilynn Marchione, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
  • It's shown promise against some leukemias and lymphomas, but this is a new type being tried for multiple myeloma, in patients whose cancer worsened despite many other treatments.
    — Marilynn Marchione, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017

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