Background Obesity is a risk factor for multiple myeloma (MM). However, we still lack
knowledge on the clinical course of obese MM patients in a broad view. Methods Here, we …

Conclusion In patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma obesity (BMI 30 or more)
was associated with better outcomes compared to BMI< 30. Response rate was similar in …

Obesity increases morbidity in and mortality of patients with various types of cancer.
However, the proportion of obese individuals in Asia is smaller than that in Western …

8543 Background: Obesity has been implicated as a risk factor for the development of
certain types of cancers, including multiple myeloma. Previous studies in other tumor types …

Simple Summary There is a growing need to clarify the effect of modifiable lifestyle factors
such as obesity on outcomes of multiple myeloma (MM). In this paper, we examined the …

Obesity is a global pandemic that has been associated with the development of breast,
endometrial, large intestine, renal, esophageal, and pancreatic cancer. Obesity is also …

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma B-cell malignancy that is characterized by the presence
of clonal proliferation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow, monoclonal protein in …

Purpose Multiple myeloma (MM), a clonal plasma cell malignancy, composes around 10%
of hematologic malignancies. Though recent advances in treatment have dramatically …

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a blood cancer of abnormal clonal plasma cells in the bone
marrow. MM accounts for 1% of neoplastic diseases and is the second most common …

Despite tremendous advances in treatments for myeloma in the past decade, the disease
remains incurable in the majority of patients. Here, we review recent data demonstrating an …