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For a patient with concurrent diagnoses of Hodgkin Lymphoma and Light Chain Myeloma complicated by Myeloma Kidney, how would you approach treatment?

What agents would have sufficient efficacy overlap to treat both?
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Medical Oncology · Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
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I have seen this once, just once. Two separate but newly diagnosed hematologic malignancies that require treatment simultaneously are rare. More common is a passenger MBL in a myeloma older than 70 y.o., MGUS in the setting of another lymphoid malignancy is not unheard of, and a T-cell gene rearrang...

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Medical Oncology · University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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This is a tough case for sure and something I've only seen in our VA population - still very rare.

"Myeloma kidney" can mean any number of things, so I think a second-opinion pathological review of all slides - kidney, lymph node, BMBx, etc. - is imperative to make sure the right diagnoses are being...

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