Clinical Profile and Treatment of Multiple Myeloma at a Tertiary Hospital in Kenya: A Five-Year Retrospective Review

Background. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a chronic B-cell malignancy that involves proliferation of neoplastic clonal plasma cells in the bone marrow with circulating monoclonal immunoglobulins or constituent chains in serum or urine or both. It is a rare cancer with a lifetime risk of 0.76% and an age-...

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Main Authors:	Wanjiku Gichuru, Nicholas A. O. Abinya, Andrew Odhiambo, Fredrick C. F. Otieno, Simon Harrison, Matilda Ong’ondi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Limited 2024-01-01
Series:	Advances in Hematology
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/3208717

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