For information on the Bone-Marrow Transplant Program , a joint program between Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple University Hospital, please click here . Currently, chemotherapy is the most effective method of treating leukemia. Various anticancer drugs are used, either in combinations or as single agents. Specialized Treatment for Myeloma Multiple myeloma affects certain white blood cells called plasma cells and is difficult to cure. People who have had a plasmacytoma may eventually develop multiple myeloma.
Radiation therapy is considered standard treatment for patients with a single plasmacytoma.
It is given five days a week for four to five weeks on an outpatient basis. Standard treatment for multiple myeloma includes two or more drugs that work together to kill myeloma cells. Either way, the drugs travel through the bloodstream, reaching myeloma cells all over the body. For this reason, chemotherapy is called systemic therapy. A Fox Chase trial for multiple myeloma patients studies a combination of two non-chemotherapy agents.