Urvi Shah, Attending Physician on Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, shared a post on X:
“While the etiology of MM is considered multifactorial, in our recent study we estimate about 11-17% of MM cases may be attributable to excess BMI and 1.2% cases to DM.”
Rahul Banerjee, Assistant Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and at the University of Washington, shared a post on X by Urvi Shah, adding:
“Some day, we may be prescribing GLP-1 analogs the way we prescribe zoledronic acid for bone health to our patients with myeloma… fascinating principle!”
Title: Racial differences in the proportion of myeloma cases attributable to excess body weight and diabetes mellitus in the United States
Authors: Aishwarya Anuraj, Divya Rath, Andriy Derkach, Saad Z. Usmani, Urvi A. Shah
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