It cannot be spread from person to person. Treatment is designed to control the cancer and treat the symptoms. Chemotherapy involves a combination of medications given by mouth or through the veins. These dmedications may control the disease for many years. Steroids are sometimes added to chemotherapy to make it work better.
Radiation therapy can treat a bone involved with the cancer.
Pain will be reduced. Radiation may help prevent a break in the bone. Plasmapheresis is a procedure that removes a large amount of abnormal protein from the blood. This will reduce the damage to the kidneys from too much protein. If a person is having other symptoms from high proteins, those symptoms will be reduced.