I wonder if a more moderate vegan diet would work or help. I have had MGUS for 22 plus years and have held MM in check despite risk factors like a dad who had SMM and a paternal cousin with myelomoncytic leukemia.
I am on a vegetarian diet. I also take a statin drug and celebrex (both are brand versions). There is research supporting both as preventing progression.
Thanks so mch for the information. What happened with you is fantastic.
I have also been reading great opinions by academic oncologists protesting the use of chemotherapy, including the antibodies, in high risk SMM and MGUS patients. Many will never progress and there is no consensus on who would fit these definitions/algorithms of high risk. Depending on the algorithm used a patient might be classified as high risk by one algorithm and not another - so it is a “crap shoot.”