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SUBMITTER: VanderWall K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3741338 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
VanderWall Kristina K Daniels-Wells Tracy R TR Penichet Manuel M Lichtenstein Alan A
Critical reviews in oncogenesis 20130101 5
Multiple myeloma is a non-curable B-cell malignancy in which iron metabolism plays an important role. Patients with this disorder almost universally suffer from clinically significant anemia, which is often symptomatic, and which is due to impaired iron utilization. Recent studies have indicated that the proximal cause of dysregulated iron metabolism and anemia in these patients is cytokine-induced upregulation of hepcidin expression. Malignant myeloma cells are dependent on an increased influx ...[more]