Question: Q1)Can you remove all of the cancer through surgery alone? Q2)If U need any treatments besides surgery, what do you recommend, and why?

Thanks for your question kibrown.

Multiple myeloma cannot be treated with surgery. The diseased cells are floating around in a person’s blood and bone marrow, so they can’t be removed.

Cancers with tumours (such as breast or lung cancer) can be treated with surgery. Sometimes the surgery will remove all of the cancer (if the tumour is small enough, and also if the cancer cells haven’t spread to another part of the body).

Usually in addition to surgery, doctors will also give the patient chemotherapy or radiation therapy to kill all the cancer cells.

In multiple myeloma doctors will prescribe different drugs to try and kill the cancer cells. Sometimes a patient can be treated with a bone marrow transplant, but again drugs or radiation need to be used to kill all the diseased cells first before the transplant can occur.