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Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Jul 27 7:33pm | Replies (22)

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I have just been found to have MGUS, after asking my PCP for recommendations after 60 year old niece diagnosed with multiple myeloma and my sister having had it in 1991 and dying 3 years later (which was the norm then.) My question is do any of you with MGUS or MM have other family members who have been similarly diagnosed? Supposedly both are non-hereditary, but I am questioning that. We are all female and white, not what supposedly typical patient with MM is.

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@tsch You have had good responses from @wesleym and @pmm2001

For myself, noone else in my family has a similar diagnosis. In 2017 I was diagnosed with MGUS, that advanced into SMM [smoldering multiple myeloma] in 2018, that advanced into MM in 2019. Yep, I am an overachiever! I have been on treatment since August 2021.
Ginger