Join us this summer to Bike the Coast to raise funds for multiple myeloma research! This epic event will include a ride from San Francisco to San Diego – 100 miles a day for 6 days. Ride as much or as little as you’d like. We have each day mapped out and participants can ride[...]

We are delighted to host the 3rd annual Muscles for Myeloma 5K and 1 Mile Walk, Columbus, Ohio, honoring the Move MMORE Legacy, at Wolfe Park.  About Muscles for Myeloma We’re building Muscles for Myeloma to help myeloma patients get moving and to help raise funds for myeloma research. Fitness matters to everyone, but it[...]

On July 14, 2018 Richard Hite, multiple myeloma cancer survivor, will be participating in the Cache Gran Fondo cycling event.  He will be riding along with other cancer survivors and team Myeloma Crowd Cycling to find a cure for multiple myeloma. He is aware that there are many people that are fighting cancer and are[...]

We’d like to invite you to join the new Myeloma Crowd Cycling Club! Avid cyclist and myeloma patient, Richard Hite, and the Myeloma Crowd team created this club in an effort to encourage patients and cyclists everywhere to “ride for a cure.”  The Myeloma Crowd Cycling team will be participating in multiple cycling events throughout[...]

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Fitness matters for myeloma patients who are given treatments based on their fitness levels (fit, unfit, or frail). Patients who are the most fit live longer because they are prepared to access the best treatments, like stem cell transplant and triple therapies. But you don’t need to run marathons to have a healthy lifestyle. Even[...]

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The Myeloma Crowd hosted it’s first Muscles for Myeloma Columbus 5K and 1 Mile Race, honoring the 10- year legacy of Move MMORE at Wolfe Park on June 3rd. Joined by over 600 runners and walkers, participants spent the glorious morning in support of multiple myeloma research. The event was a time for myeloma patients,[...]

Thanks for joining Muscles for Myeloma in 2017! During this year’s campaign, almost 20,000 of you learned why it is important to stay fit to get your best myeloma outcomes.  Congratulations to Dean Preston who completed all of the UAMS team campaign challenges and wins a Garmin Forerunner 235! Thanks to Danny Parker for his[...]

BY DANNY PARKER The title of the column should help you to be motivated. But given that many of use might not feel like getting out of our chair, what is the evidence itself? Can you convince me? I’ll begin by describing a major review published in 2012 in the Journal of the National Cancer[...]