In 2015, Valarie Traynham visited her primary care physician (PCP) after weeks of intense exhaustion, serious nosebleeds, back pain and flu-like infections. Her PCP noted high protein levels in Traynham’s bloodwork and referred her to a hematologist-oncologist, a doctor who treats cancers of the blood. Seeing a hematologist didn’t alarm Traynham, who’d suffered from anemia, but she didn’t grasp until later that the doctor was also an oncologist, and her condition might be more serious than she thought.Traynham, then 42, received more tests, including full body X-rays and a bone marrow biopsy t...
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