Multiple myeloma. Selected issues.

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I am pleased to announce that in August 2010, the collective work entitled “Multiple myeloma – comprehensive diagnostics and therapy” was published by Wydawnictwo Medyczne Górnicki from Wroclaw with the financial support of the Myeloma Treatment Center Foundation from Krakow. Currently, in order to further deepen and broaden the topic of multiple myeloma diagnosis and treatment, we have decided to prepare the second part of the work entitled: “Multiple Myeloma – complex diagnosis and therapy”:

“Multiple myeloma – selected issues”.
Under the scientific editorship of Dr. A. Jurczyszyn and Prof. A. B. Skotnicki

I hope that in this way we will be better able to help Doctors, Patients and their Families in their daily fight against the difficult-to-treat and still incurable cancer that is multiple myeloma.

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I send my regards
Artur Jurczyszyn

• Foreword – Dr. med. A. Jurczyszyn, Prof. Dr. med. A. B. Skotnicki
• Treatment of anemia, infectious complications and other complications in patients with multiple myeloma – Dr. Artur Jurczyszyn, Prof. Alexander B. Skotnicki
• Symptomatology of oral tissue changes in the course of multiple myeloma and after bone marrow allotransplantation – Dr. Maciej R. Czerniuk
• Amyloidosis and other plasmocytic dyskrasias: diagnosis and treatment – Dr. Grzegorz Charlinski, Prof. Wieslaw W. Jedrzejczak
• Principles of treatment of multiple myeloma based on the recommendations of the Polish Myeloma Group for 2011 – Prof. Anna Dmoszyńska
• Rare forms and variants of multiple myeloma – Dr. Dominik Dytfeld, Dr. Jan M. Zaucha, Dr. Andrzej Jakubowiak, Prof. Mieczysław Komarnicki
• Acute life-threatening conditions in patients with multiple myeloma – Dr. Joanna Góra-Tybor, Dr. Krzysztof Jamroziak
• Endocrine problems in patients with multiple myeloma – Dr. Jacek Belowski
• Symptoms from the osteoarticular system in the course of multiple myeloma – Jacek Olas, MD, PhD. Jolanta Bucka
• Complications of chronic corticosteroid therapy with special attention to gastrointestinal complications – Dr. Dorota Cibor, Prof. Tomasz Mach
• Cancer cachexia – principles of diagnosis and treatment – Krzysztof Krzemieniecki, MD, PhD.
• Nutrition of a patient with multiple myeloma – Ewa Ceborska, M.D., M.Sc.
• Nursing care of a patient with multiple myeloma – Jolanta Nowak, M.D., Teresa Balda
• Case reports of patients with multiple myeloma – personal experience – Dr. Marek Hus
• Selected issues of psychiatric-psychological care in hematological patients – Roman Mikula, M.D., Semko Lipiec, M.D.
• Nadzieja jako czynnik leczący lub destabilizujący w pomocy psychologicznej – ks. Jacek Prusak SJ
• Acupuncture, acupressure and other methods of Chinese medicine in a holistic approach to the cancer patient – Dr. Wieslaw S. Nowak
• “When treating Others, let’s remember ourselves” – a guide for doctors – Mariola Kosowicz, M.D.
• “My Life with Myeloma” – Stories of Patients and Their Families – compiled by Ada Witenberg, M.D.: Tadeusz Falandysz, Krystyna Kubiak, Mieczysław Król-Łęgowski, Maria Pytka, Leszek Ciepliński, Katarzyna Lepa, Jan Musiał, Roman Sadżuga, Jakub Wróbel, Janusz Żuchowski

INTRODUCTORY WORDING

We would like to hand over to the readers the second part of the monograph entitled: “Multiple myeloma – wybrane zagadnienia”, which is a continuation of the first part of the book entitled: “Multiple myeloma – complex diagnostics and therapy”, published in 2010 by the Myeloma Treatment Center Foundation of Krakow.

Multiple myeloma otherwise known as plasma cell myeloma or plasma cell myeloma (according to the 2008 WHO Classification of Tumors) is a very complex condition. The publication of the new Classification by the WHO has sparked a debate over whether the name multiple myeloma should continue to be used to describe this disease entity. The Polish translation of the term does not quite correspond to the English-language term “plasma cell myeloma.” It seems to us, after consultations with, among others, Professors Robert Kyle and Paul Richardson, that the name multiple myeloma should remain and can be used interchangeably with the term plasmocytic myeloma.

Our book presents the latest recommendations of the Polish Myeloma Group of the Polish Society of Hematologists and Transplantologists for 2011, discusses therapy of infectious complications and treatment of anemia. In addition, rare forms and variants of multiple myeloma (plasmocytic myeloma) were presented, interesting case reports of patients were presented, and the diagnosis and treatment of amyloidosis and other plasmocytic dyscrasias were presented. Prominent specialists presented the management of acute conditions directly threatening life, described osteoarticular symptoms in multiple myeloma, appropriate nutrition in the disease, cachexia syndrome in the course of cancer, endocrinological problems and issues of psychiatric-psychological care. A psycho-oncologist was invited to participate, in addition, a clergyman and a doctor who deals with acupressure, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, which seems to be important in the holistic approach to the patient. In order to show the complexity of this disease, we were able to gather statements and reflections from individuals and families of multiple myeloma patients in the course of often years of treatment. Thanks to tremendous advances in medicine, we can conclude that currently treated patients have a chance for long survival and perhaps a permanent cure.

Many thanks to the authors of the individual chapters for presenting their topics in such an interesting way, and to the reviewers for their insightful evaluation of the submitted texts. Again, we look forward to the favorable reception of this collective work and firmly believe that it will contribute to the optimal care of patients with plasmocytic myeloma.

The book was written in connection with plans to establish a professional and interdisciplinary Myeloma Treatment Center at the Department of Hematology at the University Hospital in Krakow.

Prof. Artur Jurczyszyn, MD, PhD
Prof. dr hab. med. Aleksander B. Skotnicki