My partner has just found out that he has the start of multiple myeloma how long does someone live that has just been diagnosed with myeloma thanks.

Depends: A lot longer than they used to. It depends on the stage. The average patient with stage i disease lives over 5 years--and some much longer. Even the more advanced cases two years or more and treatments are getting better.

Depends...: There are different types and stages of multiple myeloma that affect prognosis. It is highly treatable but rarely curable. The median survival in the prechemotherapy era was about 7 months. Newer therapy now has median survivals now exceeding 45 to 60 months. Multiple myeloma is potentially curable when it presents as a solitary plasmacytoma of bone or as an extramedullary plasmacytoma.