A Manitoba professor has made leaps and bounds in cancer research, developing a tool that could add years onto multiple myeloma patients' lives.
A Manitoba professor has made leaps and bounds in cancer research, developing a tool that could tack years onto patients' lives. Our Daisy Woelk reports on the discovery - and the implications.She said extreme fatigue and numbness made her look like a multiple sclerosis patient. But her bloodwork was normal. Yet the symptoms kept building.
“I was living a reasonably good life. I had a lot of fun, I was working full-time, raising my kids. I was 43 years old when this happened.”“Nobody wants to hear the word that they’ve got cancer. But it was an absolute relief to know this is what was going on, and that we could start making an action plan to see if we could make things better,” Dalrymple said.“In Canada for this year, an expected one in 4,100 patients will be diagnosed with . Unfortunately, there’s no cure yet.
While it’s not a cure, tests show it means patients can be treated earlier, and consequently, live longer. “The pathway for most of technology developers like us was to get it approved in the US first and presented and then go to Health Canada and get it approved,” said Dr. Sherif Louis, president of the company. “The U.S. market is definitely bigger, and it’s maybe easier to penetrate as well.”“We are at exciting times. It’s like living the dream,” he said. “It’s a new frontier of looking at the biology of a cell in the within the context of three-dimensional setting.
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