What are the survival rate of a patient suffering from multiple myloma?
Patient: One of my relative has Multiple Myloma. His age is 72 years, 5 8 height and will be around 70 kg of weight. Along with many test, he had the bone marrow. In which it was detected that its around 88%. What should be further course of action and what are the chances of his survival? Doctor: Thanks for your question on HCM. Multiple myeloma is tumour affecting bone marrow. So it is rapidly spreading and very notorious in course.Usually it is responding to the chemotherapy.  And pain in bones are treated by local radiotherapy. Surgery is not indicated as most of the time,at the time of detection Iit is already  metmetastatize to distal organs. So chemotherapy is the corner stone of the treatment. And multiple myeloma has various types. And prognosis is based on types.Usual five year survival rate is 60-70%. And life expectancy is usually more than 4-5 years.