New treatment for multiple myeloma
May 19
Dr. Rafael Fonseca is a hematologist at Mayo Clinic Arizona who leads a team of researchers working to create a better future for patients with multiple myeloma, a rare form of cancer.
When Dr. Fonseca began at Mayo Clinic in 1998, there were only two drugs to treat multiple myeloma with a survival rate of about two years. It was thought to be incurable. Now, 25 years later, he is seeing a growing number of his patients living twenty years post diagnosis.
Dr. Fonseca joined “Arizona Horizon” to discuss the improvements in treatment of multiple myeloma and the introduction of better diagnostics and better immunologic treatments.
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