Thomas Goode, an RRMM patient advocate, explains why understanding your myeloma type can help guide treatment decisions and improve conversations with your care team.
Transcript
The patients, you know, they want to learn more about their treatment or change the treatment plan. You know, you have to have that conversation with your doctor.
And it’s good to understand your type of myeloma, because that’s what a lot of patients don’t know is what their type of myeloma is.
So if they understood their type of myeloma, it’s easy to have these conversations because they have targeted therapies that could target specific myeloma.
And if they have these conversations, then their doctor can pinpoint them in the right direction of which therapy that will help them the best.
