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Multiple myeloma is a type of cancer that affects the immune and plasma cells within bone marrow. Over forty thousand individuals have multiple myeloma in the United States alone. Multiple myeloma generally affects individual’s over the age of sixty, although there have been cases that involved younger individuals. Statistically, African Americans have about a ten in one hundred thousand chance of having the disease; consequently among African Americans multiple myeloma is one of the leading causes of death attributed to cancer. The prognosis for an individual with multiple myeloma is poor and usually an individual may expect to live three years after the diagnosis of multiple myeloma. Currently treatment of multiple myeloma will involve chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants in an effort to contain or control the disease. Can you win social security disability or SSI disability benefits on the basis of Multiple myeloma ? 
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