A skilled specialist may be able to feel a breast lump that is half-a-centimetre wide. A plain chest X-ray can be expected to detect cancers from 1cm wide. And a CT scan will detect smaller cancers to a few millimetres. But a cancer 1cm across on a scan has about million cancer cells ; even a 0. A 1mm cancer, which would not show up on scans, has , cancer cells. So, even when a cancer can no longer be seen and is no longer causing symptoms, there can still be millions of cells remaining.
They can keep growing and eventually the cancer will be large enough to be detected again. Measuring these is more accurate than scans in detecting small amounts of cancer. Better still, chronic myeloid leukaemia CML — a rare form of leukaemia — has a characteristic genetic abnormality, which a very sensitive blood test can detect.
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While it is not common for patients with myeloma to have such long remissions, they are seen from time to time. If and when relapse does occur, there are many effective treatment options, including a second autologous stem cell transplant. I was diagnosed two years ago with advanced multiple myeloma at the same time as being diagnosed with breast cancer.
I was on thalidomide for maintenance for about eight months until I developed peripheral neuropathy, then on Revlimid lenalidomide for about four cycles, but the neuropathy continued and worsened, even on low doses of Revlimid. So presently, I am in remission almost negligible protein levels , but am on no maintenance treatment, and my oncologist absolutely wants to avoid worsening the neuropathy at this time. This makes me a bit nervous. I felt sort of "protected" on Revlimid, and now I'm thinking that my multiple myeloma will return sooner, shorten my time-to-progression and my overall survival time.
Does that happen to people who can't tolerate thalidomide and Revlimid? Is being on no treatment a good option? Are there any other effective maintenance treatments?
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