Interactive Health Communication for longer, better lives.

Multiple Myeloma Support: Welcome to beating-myeloma.org

A non-traditional approach to healing multiple myeloma

Beating-myeloma.org was founded by multiple myeloma survivor David Emerson and is dedicated to helping everyone faced with myeloma manage their health and live longer, better lives. We are a 501c3 tax exempt nonprofit organization and do not sell or benefit from the sale of any treatment.

We invite you to:

Share

We provide an interactive forum for sharing information, advice, and a full spectrum of approaches to confronting disease. Visit the forum and read recent posts, or perform a search to bring up posts on the topic of your choice.

Learn

Beating-myeloma.org is built from the story and unique perspective of our founder David Emerson. Each section of our site contains David’s experiences and recommendations. Learn about therapies, side effects, diagnosis, and much more by navigating through the menu to the left of this page.

Learn from other multiple myeloma survivors and caregivers on the forum/listerv. Receive up to date information about therapies, side effects, diagnosis, and other issues by subscribing to one or more of the S.D.I's, our e-newsletters.

Search

Are you interested in a specific topic or therapy? We provide a thorough search engine that will scour our site for the most up to date, relevant information. Go to our search page, or type your inquiry in the box at the top left hand corner of this page.

Join

Our site is built around our membership. Members can post to our forum, request monthly newsletters from David, and subscribe to a daily digest of the forum to be delivered to their email inboxes. Learn more about becoming a member (it’s free).

 

Earl Kielley Survivor Story

Fast forward. On approximately January 3, 2003, I had a physical exam, my doctor told me to come back to see him quickly because my PSA was 4.6 (that is an atypical reading for a prostate). He said he wanted to do a biopsy. He did so and found pre cancer cells in my prostate. The condition is called high grade PIN.....

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Recent Forum Posts

demerson wrote on July 31 2008,

This was Martine's reply to my post about bmt's- David

"This raises an interesting point which is how to identify the 3% that would definitely benefit from the procedure.
We went to Dana Farber at the beginning ...

Susan wrote on August 04 2008,

I thought that supplements for vitamin D weren't supposed to be as good as the real thing, I wonder if this has been studied.

Susan Miller

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What is Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI)?

Below are examples of SDI's, emails sent to beating-myeloma.org members each month or so that contain current, topical and relevant information on the subjects that you request when you sign up as a member- Therapies, Issues, Side Effects, Diagnosis and General myeloma issues. Register now, it's FREE!