What is Myeloma? | Cancer Research UK 2021

Find out about what myeloma is, how it starts, symptoms, and how your specialist plans the best treatment for you.
00:02 What is Myeloma?
00:33 Types of white blood cells
00:46 What do plasma cells do?
00:54 How myeloma starts
1:20 How myeloma causes symptoms
2:02 Why it is also called multiple myeloma

Myeloma is a type of blood cancer that develops from plasma cells in the bone marrow. Bone marrow is the spongy substance found inside the inner part of some of our large bones. It makes different types of blood cells including plasma cells.

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