Myeloma
Your treatment depends on several factors. These include your symptoms and your general health.
The main treatments for myeloma include targeted cancer drugs, chemotherapy and steroids. You may also have treatment to reduce the symptoms and help you feel better. A team of doctors and other professionals discuss the best treatment and care for you.
The main treatments for myeloma are chemotherapy, steroids and targeted cancer drugs. You usually have a combination of treatments.
The first treatment for myeloma is likely to be a combination of chemotherapy, targeted cancer drugs and steroids.
When myeloma comes back it is called a relapse. You will need to have more treatment. There are different treatment options.
A stem cell transplant allows you to have high doses of chemotherapy, which damages your bone marrow cells. After the chemotherapy, you have new stem cells into your bloodstream through a drip.
Myeloma can damage areas of bone, weakening them and it can cause pain. Radiotherapy can help to reduce pain and slow down the bone damage.
Treatment for myeloma can be as tablets or as an injection into a vein as a drip (intravenously).
Myeloma can affect you in different ways. There are supportive treatments to help prevent, control or reduce the symptoms of myeloma.
You doctor will monitor you if you have myeloma without symptoms (smouldering myeloma). They also monitor you during and after treatment for myeloma.
Last reviewed: 14 Nov 2023
Next review due: 14 Nov 2026
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