Now entering my fifth year of living with multiple myeloma, a haematological cancer, I reflect back on a roller-coaster ride of symptoms, treatments and side effects.

Q: When you first developed symptoms of multiple myeloma, you were disappointed to find that available research was not very helpful in deciding what to do.

Research funded by the multiple myeloma Re — search Foundation at a small biotech led to a promising new drug for multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells in bones.