One of the key markers that myeloma doctors pay attention to are 1 the involved light chain for your type of myeloma kappa or lambda and 2 the kappa lambda light chain ratio.
Lambda light chain myeloma prognosis.
Does this type of light chain matter for my prognosis.
The serum free light chain test can be used to determine light chain levels of disease so.
There is research showing that lambda myeloma may be higher risk than kappa myeloma.
Generally myeloma specialists do not treat patients differently based on their heavy or light chain myeloma type.
Ninety seven patients with light chain disease lcd were studied.
Light chain multiple myeloma is a type of multiple myeloma a cancer of the plasma cells multiple myeloma begins in the bone marrow where white blood cells are formed.
A lower proportion of kappa lcd patients 15 7 than lambda lcd patients 42 2 died within.