Multiple myeloma is a disease condition that is complicated to treat and to understand. Multiple myeloma is a form a cancer that attacks the body by making white blood cells or plasma cells, that infect the bone marrow to take over areas of the body, forcing out the healthier blood cells that sustain human life.
If you have lived or worked at the Marine Corps Base and Naval Training Center Camp Lejeune located in Jacksonville in North Carolina during the timeframe of the 1950s through to February 1985, you may be exposed to the hazardous chemicals, contaminants and poisons that affected the ground water during that time.
What Happened to the Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune?
The residents, children, military personnel, spouses and civilian workers on the Camp Lejeune Base were exposed to dangerous chemicals and contaminants in the drinking water, and this created a cancer hazard. These hazardous conditions were a result of exposure to toxins such as:
- Trichloroethylene
- Tetrachloroethylene
- Dichloroethylene
- Vinyl chloride
- Benzene
- Other contaminants hazardous to health
These contaminants are known cancer-causing agents, and a are dangerous to human health on all levels. It can cause the disease of multiple myelomas, which are difficult to diagnose, treat and are not curable at this time.
How Does Multiple Myeloma Form in the Body?
This disease can form when there are multiple myeloma malignant cells that become dysfunctional in the body, reducing tumor antigenic peptides by antigen presenting cells, and encouraging inhibitory pathways. In other words, the multiple myeloma prevents normal and healthy cell growth in the body.
If you have been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, it is considered an incurable condition, but it may respond to treatment. Many people with multiple myeloma are treated for the disease and then relapse, whereby their former treatments that worked in the past can suddenly stop working.
Many Symptoms of Multiple Myeloma May Be Invisible
There are many symptoms for multiple myeloma, which may seem not that serious, and are symptoms that may even mimic more minor disturbances in the body. The standard symptoms of multiple myeloma include:
- Feeling nauseated
- Losing weight
- Getting many different infections
- Feeling mental fog
- No appetite
- Being constipated
- Feeling weakness in the legs
- Being excessively thirsty
As you can see, many of these symptoms are very common, and people can feel this way over time all the while assuming that it will get better with time. But if you have multiple myeloma from living or working on Camp Lejeune Base, you may have a claim to litigate for your right to be reimbursed for damages, losses and personal injuries based on your diagnosis with multiple myeloma.
Is There a Cure for Multiple Myeloma?
Unfortunately, there is no current “cure” for multiple myeloma. It is an aggressive type of cancer, where the body has a difficult time to recover from the disease and infections characterized by this type of cancer.
Currently too, there are many new treatments for multiple myeloma, including:
- enhanced monoclonal antibodies
- antibody-drug conjugates (ADC)
- bispecific T-cell engagers (BiTE)
- chimeric antigen-T-cell therapy (CAR-T)
People who have developed multiple myeloma can also have Venous thromboembolism or VTE. If you also have VTE, you may have a higher risk of death in the first year after receiving your diagnosis.
What Can the Doctor Do If You Have Multiple Myeloma?
Your healthcare provider will want to talk to you about any current treatments, therapies and clinical trials that you might be eligible for, if you have been diagnosed with multiple myeloma from living at Camp Lejeune.
Additionally, some studies show that biomarker testing might be a viable option to help determine early detection of multiple myelomas in humans. These tests will be cost effective for multiple myelomas, and can help to find the disease early enough in people suffering from this disease, to help effectuate modern treatments to prolong the person’s life.
If you are currently diagnosed with multiple myeloma, you need to talk to a knowledgeable lawyer about your case. Our legal team has attorneys standing by to discuss your multiple myeloma case with you right now. You can call us now to get your case sorted as soon as possible, don’t delay.
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Can I Sue for Developing Multiple Myeloma at Camp Lejeune?
Yes, we can sue if you have developed multiple myeloma from living or working at Camp Lejeune. You just need to call us at the Normandie Law Firm, to talk to our Los Angeles case lawyers today. We can file a lawsuit on the merits of your case, and defend you to a successful conclusion in a court of law. The only way to get started is to call us to talk to our case attorneys in Los Angeles right now.
Average Case Value
The average case value for a multiple myeloma case will be upwards of $1 million and up. When there is an early diagnosis, it may be possible to slow the progression of the disease with treatments. But with a later diagnosis, missed or misdiagnosis for multiple myeloma, the person with this disease may not live more than a year or less with this disease.
How Long Does It Take to Settle and to Get Paid on These Cases?
Depending on how many medical records you have access to now, and which ones you will need to retrieve from your doctors, all medical records related to your case will need to be gathered and compiled. That will take weeks to months, to get all of the relevant medical documentation from your current and former healthcare providers. You will also need to find out if you will need additional services from your healthcare provider, such as:
- Pain management therapy
- Physical therapy
- Surgical procedures
- Rehabilitation therapies
In the event that your medical treatments are not over, you will need to continue those treatments. The medical billings for those treatments will not come in, until you are finished with the treatments themselves. For this reason, it will take some time and several months to request the medical billings and treatment plans from your doctors.
Once all of your medical treatment, lost wages, pain and suffering and medical billings are accumulated, it will be easier to determine a full recovery compensation settlement amount. That amount will be presented to the insurance company on your behalf, to settle out your case. It will be important not to rush this process, as to not miss anything that you need to be reimbursed for in the process to settling out your claim.
Statute Of Limitations – How Long Do I Have to File a Lawsuit?
The statute of limitations in California for personal injury lawsuit filing is two years.
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You can call our law firm today at the Normandie Law Firm, to discuss your claim for multiple myeloma caused by living at Camp Lejeune. We are here to listen to your concerns, and discuss your case with you in full confidence in a way that you can understand. All that you need to do is to give us a call today.
References
Soekojo, C. Y., & Chng, W. J. (2022). Treatment Horizon in Multiple Myeloma. European Journal of Haematology, 10.1111/ejh.13840. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejh.13840.
Thalambedu, N., & Al Hadidi, S. (2022). Thromboprophylaxis in multiple myeloma. Leukemia & Lymphoma, 1–9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428194.2022.2092856.
Vu, M., Degeling, K., Thompson, E. R., Blombery, P., Westerman, D., & IJzerman, M. J. (2022). Health economic evidence for the use of molecular biomarker tests in hematological malignancies: A systematic review. European Journal of Haematology, 108(6), 469–485. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejh.13755
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