When Caethe Goetz was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare form of bone marrow cancer, at age 49 in 2003, both she and her doctor were perplexed.
The disease affects only 20,000 Americans a year, typically African-American males in their late 60s. Goetz’s family has no history of cancer.
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