How do you utilize immunoglobulin testing to affect treatment decisions in patients with myeloma?

Topics: Hematologic Malignancies • Medical Oncology • Myeloma • Hematology

What does it add beyond a serum electrophoresis or light chain testing?

Are there certain types of patients where monitoring immunoglobulins is particularly useful?

Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution

Most of the time, I correlate the type of Ig the patient has with the serum M protein and Free light chain to see if they are responding or progressing (most of the time it will correlate); the only exception is patients who are known with IgA type; most of the time the serum M -protein might not co...

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Medical Oncologist at Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute Northwest Hospital
Are you saying that in an IgG myeloma, the IgG lev...

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