TY - BOOK AU - Yasser Arafat Hassen Mohammed AU - Alfred Elias Namour , AU - Fouad Mohamed Abutaleb , AU - Nasr Mohamed Ali Allahloubi , TI - Retrospective management of multiple myeloma / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Yasser Arafat Hassen Mohammed , KW - Cancer KW - Management of multiple myeloma KW - Retrospective study N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - National Cancer Institute - Department of Oncology-Medical; Issued also as CD N2 - Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignant neoplasm of plasma cells that accumulate in bone marrow leading to bone destruction and marrow failure . The study is a retrospective one involving (53) patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma between 2002 - 2007 in the medical oncology department at the National Cancer Institute ,Cairo University and Interal Medicine Department Zagazig University hospital to evaluate the management of multiple myeloma including diagnosis monitoring of disease activity prognostic factors conventional chemotherapy ER -