Global News Winnipeg: Manitoba professor makes ‘amazing’ cancer research breakthrough

“Nobody wants to hear the word that they’ve got cancer. But it was an absolute relief to know this is what was going on, and that we could start making an action plan to see if we could make things better,” Dalrymple said.

It’s a rare disease.

“In Canada for this year, an expected one in 4,100 patients will be diagnosed with (multiple myeloma). Unfortunately, there’s no cure yet. So that means, again, sadly, that everybody diagnosed with the disease today would die,” said Dr. Sabine Mai, a professor with the department of physiology and pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba.

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