[ScaredDad]

Can prior negative biopsies rule out multiple myeloma?

by ScaredDad on Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:08 pm

Hello,

I've previously been tested via bone marrow biopsy for chronic myeloid leukemia, myelo­pro­liferative neoplasms (FGF, PDGFRA, and PDGFRB), and systemic mastocytosis and been ruled out of all of these. I'm seeing a new doctor and he has done another bone marrow biopsy to test for multiple myeloma. The prior negative diagnoses were years ago and I had forgotten about them until earlier today after the biopsy. I'm scared out of my mind and am wondering if these previous, negative test results by a competent doctor would rule out a positive multiple myeloma diagnosis.

Looking for any help at all. Scared out of my mind.

Thanks in advance.

[Little Monkey]

Re: Can prior negative biopsies rule out multiple myeloma?

by Little Monkey on Sat Oct 22, 2016 2:18 pm

Not always. Sometimes a person with a negative biopsy can still have a solitary plasmacytoma or nonsecretory or oligosecretory myeloma, but I would say it is on the rarer side.