Doctors have long relied on painful procedures to diagnose and monitor certain blood cancers. One of these cancers is multiple myeloma, a disease that starts in the bone marrow. Bone marrow is the ...

A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

Bone marrow biopsies are performed to check for cancer and other diseases that impact your blood. A bone marrow biopsy is performed by inserting a large needle into your bone, usually your hip bone, ...

For many patients with blood cancer, diagnosis and follow-up care can be physically and emotionally difficult. One of the ...

Just days after their laboratories were devastated by an Iranian missile attack, Profs. Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay of the Weizmann Institute of Science have published a landmark study that could ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood cells are produced. Over time, myeloma cells cause damage to bones, kidneys, ...

In order to diagnose a patient with multiple myeloma, a physician will typically order several different tests. That’s because multiple myeloma is a complex disease and knowing the results of these ...