How can a community oncologist work with a myeloma specialist?

How can a community oncologist work with a myeloma specialist?

The good community oncologist can and should work with the myeloma specialist. No community oncologist should be expected to understand all the vicissitudes of myeloma. It is just far too unusual of a cancer for a community oncologist who doesn't see that cancer very often.

A community oncologist can give you your labs. They can do your drugs for you. They can administer them. But they need to do that with the help. And actually, I'd say the authority of a myeloma specialist, I would sort of equate it to say that the myeloma specialist is the captain of your ship.

But remember, you are the admiral of the fleet. It's your cancer. You make the final decision. Your specialist is your advisor. Your community doctor is your advisor. You are the myeloma patient or the one who makes the final decision.