She Thought Her Husband Was Being Treated for the Wrong Disease. She Was Right

That’s when the patient’s wife decided they needed a second opinion and made an appointment with Dr. Kazim Sheikh, a neurologist at the University of Texas at Houston. He listened to the patient and his wife describe their hellish year, and even before he examined the patient, he made his first diagnosis: “I think you have a cancer. In POEMS, patients often develop tumors made up of cells that produce antibodies.

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