Since many individuals with WM have no symptoms, the initial diagnosis may result from blood tests that are performed for some other purpose.
Many individuals with WM have no symptoms of the disease. This is known as asymptomatic macroglobulinemia. When symptoms of WM are present, they may vary greatly
There is no known prevention for WM
It was first identified in 1944, by the Swedish physician Jan Gosta Waldenstrom
There also is no generally-accepted course of treatment for WM.
It is estimated that it may affect about five out of every 100,000 people
WM most often affects males over the age of 65
Other names that are sometimes used for WM include: lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, lymphoplasmacytic leukemia,
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All lymphomas other than Hodgkin's disease, including WM, are known collectively as non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
Biological therapy or immunotherapy, with the potent, immune system protein interferon alpha, is used to relieve the symptoms of WM.
Jack Gelber died on May 9, 2003, in New York City, New York, USA of Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia.
The dancer, choreographer, and director Gower Champion died of WM the night his last show, "42nd Street," opened on Broadway. The playwright Jack Gelber ("The Connection") was president of the NYC WM support group until his death. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, Algerian president Houari Boumedienne, and French president and prime minister Georges Pompidou all died of WM.