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- Title
Diagnosing myeloma in general practice: how might earlier diagnosis be achieved?
- Authors
Smith, Lesley; Carmichael, Jonathan; Cook, Gordon; Shinkins, Bethany; Neal, Richard D
- Abstract
Multiple myeloma, the third most common blood cancer, is often discovered following multiple prediagnostic consultations, with delays in diagnosis resulting from the ubiquitous nature of presenting symptoms.[1] Delays result in high disease burden, greater end-organ damage, and emergency presentation, all of which are associated with poorer outcomes.[2] Improving the early diagnosis of myeloma remains an area of unmet clinical need. This would enable large-scale, low-cost case finding for myeloma, independent of the patient's ability to articulate their symptoms and the GP considering myeloma as part of the differential diagnosis.
- Subjects
MONOCLONAL gammopathies; MULTIPLE myeloma; DIAGNOSIS; EARLY diagnosis; PLASMA cell diseases; IMMUNOGLOBULIN light chains
- Publication
British Journal of General Practice, 2022, Vol 72, Issue 723, p462
- ISSN
0960-1643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3399/bjgp22x720737