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Patients suffering from which of the following disease contain large quantities of a single type of antibodies?(a) glioblastoma(b) prostate cancer(c) breast cancer(d) multiple myelomaThis question was posed to me in final exam.Question is taken from Molecular Basis of Immunity in section Immune Response of Cell Biology

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Right option is (d) multiple myeloma

Explanation: In multiple myeloma, the plasma cells go out of CONTROL and convert into MALIGNANT cells. The plasma cells make an abnormal ANTIBODY in this disease, the ANTIBODIES are known by several names – monoclonal immunoglobulin, monoclonal protein etc.



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