Each year, more and more multiple myeloma patients must consider an issue which, in years past, was not even viewed as relevant to people with myeloma.

That issue is pregnancy.

It is true that the co-occurrence of multiple myeloma and pregnancy re­mains relatively rare, given that myeloma typically affects older in­di­vid­u­als.  The median age at myeloma diagnosis is 69 years, and only 4 percent of my­e­lo­ma cases occur in in­di­vid­u­als younger than 45 years.

Likewise, only about 30 cases of pregnancy in women with myeloma have been reported in the medical literature …