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Study Shows Stable Multiple Myeloma Rates Over The Past 50 Years In Sweden

Multiple myeloma rates have stayed steady among all age ranges over the past 50 years, according to a study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings this month. The research, which tracked multiple myeloma diagnoses among all the residents of Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmo, between 1950 and 2005, contradicts the results of several previously-published studies that found that multiple myeloma rates increased in the 1960s and 1970s.

“The message of the paper is that age-adjusted [risk of developing] myeloma has been stable over 56 years.” wrote Dr. Ingemar Turesson, the study’s lead scientist, in …

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