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. A special medication, called Aredia, can be given to reduce excess calcium in the blood. This will also strengthen the bones. Specific side effects of chemotherapy depend on the medication selected.