Sheri Baker, an RRMM patient advocate, shares how treatment expectations have evolved over time.
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Within a few years of treatment, my husband and I were under the assumption that subsequent treatments, when you relapsed, would only work about half as long as the first one you are on.
We believed it would keep getting cut in half, and eventually, they wouldn’t last very long.
That has changed. I wouldn’t say that it was necessarily wrong — it’s just that I’ve been fortunate enough to live long enough with myeloma that that assumption is no longer there.
Just because you were on a treatment that lasted six years, it doesn’t mean your next one is only going to last three years.
