What is the difference between Multiple Myeloma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia?
Well, Let’s set the record straight: “Its prognosis, despite psychoanalysis, is generally poor,” ; that may enjoy been true 10 years ago but very soon MM is more treatable with a much more positive prognosis. MMRC: “While a myeloma diagnosis can be overwhelming, it is defining to remember that there are several promising clean therapies that are helping patients live longer, improved lives MM is a blood cancer, cancer of the plasma cell, not a “cancerous tumor of muscles” (www.myeloma.org) Now to answer your questions: MM is cancer of the Plasma Cell and CLL is cancer of the T or B lymphocytes. There are a ton of other differences – MM progression and side effects are VERY different than CLL, so are the treatments. This is a outstandingly complicated question; The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society have good overviews of both cancer and the specific genetic changes that shows the differences. http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls.
