How many patients are diagnosed with amyloidosis?

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How many patients are diagnosed with amyloidosis?

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It's several thousand patients per year. So it's roughly about 1/10 as common as myeloma. So multiple myeloma is about 30,000 or so new patients per year in the United States, and amyloidosis is about 1/10 of that.

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But one thing about amyloidosis also is that it's also probably heavily underdiagnosed, meaning that there are a lot of people out there with it who don't know about it

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or often because they have symptoms and their local physicians haven't picked up on the fact that they have amyloidosis. And then also, because it's a complicated thing to diagnose, it's not just a quick blood test or an echocardiogram or X-rays.

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You really need to do the right test to look for it, to find it.

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And so we say that the average

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incidence or number of new cases per year in the United States is probably about 3000. But in reality, there's probably more of it out there.

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Unfortunately, nowadays, with the increasing recognition of amyloidosis as being a diagnosed more readily and more quickly and efficiently.

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And so I think that those numbers are going to go up with time.