I didn't get that feeling from the article at all. My brother actually has multiple myeloma as well; he's checked every 3 months to see if the blood levels have spiked and a skeletal survey is done every 6 months. It's almost a certainty that the cancer to start eating away at your bones and you not know it between the skeletal surveys.
"So every year Martin would get his blood checked, fearing the 1% to 2% chance that the marker had spiked.
It never did, and Martin slipped into a routine that included juggling long hours at the office, raising three teenage boys, racing cars, skiing, and cycling."
After reading the "slipped into a routine..." part I took it to mean that he stopped getting the annual tests, thinking that he'd done it long enough to satisfy himself that he wasn't going to get the disease. Sounds like I read it the same way sliverstorm did.
