[Beacon Staff]

Weekly Poll - Family And Friends With Smoldering Myeloma

by Beacon Staff on Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:16 am

This week, we'll be running two polls. This one is about who you know that has smoldering myeloma. The other is about who you know that has monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS):
https://myelomabeacon.org/forum/weekly-poll-family-and-friends-with-mgus-t1245.html

Even if you don't personally know anyone with these diseases, please take the time to answer both polls.

A few clarifications:

First, this question is open to all Beacon readers.

Second, the poll options refer to how the people you know are related to you. For example, "Mother" refers to your mother.

Third, you may have met many friends with smoldering myeloma since you or your loved one's diagnosis. For the purpose of this poll, please don't vote for friends with smoldering myeloma that you met because of your or your loved one's diagnosis (e.g., at a treatment center, support group meeting, etc). In other words, only vote for "Friend" if your friend is the only person you know with smoldering myeloma, if you had a friend diagnosed with smoldering myeloma prior to you or your loved one's diagnosis, or if a long-term friend was also diagnosed with smoldering myeloma after you or your loved one's diagnosis.

As always, feel free to post comments, thoughts, or feedback in the space below. They can be very helpful to other readers.

For those who are interested, we ran a similar poll a while back asking about who you know that has multiple myeloma:
https://myelomabeacon.org/forum/weekly-poll-family-and-friends-with-multiple-myeloma-t1107.html