{"id":216755,"date":"2025-06-27T21:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/precursors-to-bone-marrow-cancer-can-stop-themselves-by-entering-dormant-state"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T02:03:56","slug":"precursors-to-bone-marrow-cancer-can-stop-themselves-by-entering-dormant-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/precursors-to-bone-marrow-cancer-can-stop-themselves-by-entering-dormant-state","title":{"rendered":"Precursors to bone marrow cancer can stop themselves by entering dormant state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/precursors-to-bone-marrow-cancer-can-stop-themselves-by-entering-dormant-state2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why do some patients with precursors to bone marrow cancer never develop the disease? Researchers from the Department of Forensic Medicine at Aarhus University have discovered that some cells enter a dormant state and create a defense against cancer\u2014a breakthrough that could lead to early treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41375-025-02572-z\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Leukemia<\/i>, researchers investigated multiple myeloma, a serious <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bone\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bone<\/a> marrow <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer<\/a> that arises in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/plasma+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasma cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before the disease emerges, patients always have a precursor condition, either MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance) or SMM (smoldering multiple myeloma). These conditions are not cancer themselves but are associated with an increased risk of developing bone marrow cancer\u2014approximately 1% and 10% increased risk per year, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do some patients with precursors to bone marrow cancer never develop the disease? Researchers from the Department of Forensic Medicine at Aarhus University have discovered that some cells enter a dormant state and create a defense against cancer\u2014a breakthrough that could lead to early treatment. In a new study published in the journal Leukemia, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}