Articles tagged with: African-American
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How has your week started, myeloma world?
We hope it's going well so far.
We once again have a rather long list of new myeloma research we'd like to discuss with you. We suspect most of our readers will find at least one or two studies in the report to be of particular interest.
We begin today's report with a discussion of a somewhat rare eye-related side effect of Velcade (bortezomib) and a possible way to control the side effect.
Next, we take a quick look at two articles about …
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The results of a recently published study show that, among newly diagnosed myeloma patients, African-Americans are less likely than white Americans to have the four most common myeloma-related chromosomal abnormalities.
The authors of the study investigated how often the chromosomal abnormalities t(11;14), t(4;14), del(13q), and del(17p) were present in two different groups of newly diagnosed myeloma patients. One group consisted of African-Americans, the other of white Americans.
Each of the four abnormalities occurred less frequently in the African-American patients.
In addition, almost two-thirds of the African-American patients (63 percent) did not have …
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Findings from a recent analysis conducted in the United States indicate that African-American multiple myeloma patients may have a lower frequency of certain chromosomal abnormalities compared to European-American patients.
In particular, the investigators from the Mayo Clinic found that African-Americans with myeloma may have a lower rate of chromosome 14 translocations.
Chromosome 14 translocations are typically associated with myeloma that is more aggressive and harder-to-treat.
The Mayo researchers note that, although their results suggest that African-Americans may have myeloma which, on average, is less aggressive than myeloma in European-Americans, there are many …