Clinical Spectrum and Prognosis of Multiple Myeloma in Patients Younger than 30 Years : Is it Different from the Elderly

Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a disease of the elderly. The occurrence of MM in patients younger than thirty years is rare. Over the last ten years five patients with MM of less than thirty years of age were evaluated at our centre and which constituted 3.3% of all the MM cases. Three patients had initial extramedullary involvement. All patients responded to the initial planned therapy and were clinically disease free at the time of last follow-up. In the background of clinical and laboratory features, a brief review of literature was carried out and the prognosis of this subgroup has been discussed.