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LIKE MOST PEOPLE , Dave didn’t go into his annual physical with any major health concerns. But his routine exam ended up being the start of something far from routine. “My doctor called me a day or two later to tell me I looked to be anemic,” he recalls. Coincidentally, the next day he slipped and fell in the bathroom, breaking his leg and hip.

The two seemingly unconnected events revealed a surprising diagnosis: Dave had an aggressive form of multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that develops in plasma cells in the bone marrow, the soft and spongy tissue at the center of bones.

“I didn’t know…

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