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SUMMARY: First diagnosed with myeloma October 2011. Recruited onto clinical trial Myeloma X11 (Lenalidomide) at Bristol Oncology and Haematology Centre. First High Dose Therapy and Stem Cell Transplant (HDT&SCT) in July 2012. On maintenance until June 2017. June 2018 recruited onto Myeloma XII trial (Ixazomib). December 2018 Second HDT&SCT. On maintenance until February 2020. August 2020 Commenced treatment involving Daratumumab. April 2021 relapsed. June 2021 recruited onto Cartitude 4 clinical trial and infused with CAR-T cells in October 2021. My own immune system is now fighting the cancer . I am exceedingly fortunate.


Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Happy New Year

I've very little to report this month !

Christmas proved to be most enjoyable with visits from both our sons, their partners, and of course our grandson. No sooner than the festive holiday had arrived that it was time to dismantle the decorations and pack them away until needed again.

Enough waffle!

I visited my consultant this week and, again, my paraprotein was undetectable. My kappa reading was again slightly raised but I was assured that the numbers were so low as to be of no consequence. I'm thus still fit and well and ready to get on with 2015.

With that in mind I now must look for a suitable saying:

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease
than to know what sort of disease a person has.    (Hippocrates)

Keep healthy and KBO

Stephen