Articles tagged with: Oligosecretory Myeloma
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A type of test called the free light chain assay can frequently detect oligosecretory disease in multiple myeloma patients. The findings, discussed in a letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, also indicate that oligosecretory myeloma is more prevalent at later stages of the disease.
Oligosecretory myeloma, along with nonsecretory myeloma, is a subset of multiple myeloma. Nonsecretory myeloma patients have no measureable levels of monoclonal (M) protein in their urine or blood. Similarly, oligosecretory myeloma patients have very low M-protein levels, also known as the M-spike, in …