Diagnosed in 2005 with a plasmacytoma that was treated with radiation in 2006, Thomas Goode soon underwent a stem cell transplant. Two months after completion of an autologous stem cell transplant, Thomas’s brother matched as a candidate for Thomas’s allogenic stem cell transplant. Today, Thomas is on maintenance therapy and continues to run a support group Raleigh-Durham area, which he has facilitated for the past three years. Thomas describes the Triangle Area Support Group as “a small group but powerful with knowledge.”
Michael Tuohy was diagnosed with myeloma in 2000 while in his mid-30s. He and his wife, Robin, who is Senior Director of Support Groups for the International Myeloma Foundation, immediately worried about how this would affect their children, who were 2 an
