Leukemia

November 28, 2018December 1, 2018

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Funding Next Wave of Blood Cancer Research

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has announced $42 million in new grants for 80 disease research teams globally, in its continuing efforts to invest in comprehensive blood cancer research. More ... Read more

October 24, 2018

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Grants $5M for Development of Blood Cancer Immunotherapies

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A team of Texas researchers received a grant of $5 million from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to develop targeted immunotherapies for blood cancers. The Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) grant will provide ... Read more

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018

Abdominal Obesity Better Than BMI at Predicting Risk for Blood Diseases, Study Shows

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Measuring abdominal fat (obesity), including waist circumference, is a better predictor of the risk of developing hematological malignancies, especially multiple myeloma, than body mass index (BMI), according to a population-based ... Read more

March 2, 2018March 2, 2018

Researchers Discover a Non-invasive and Safe Way to Assess Stem Cell Transplants Earlier

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An imaging agent called 18F-fluorothymidine (18F-FLT) allows researchers to assess how a patient is recovering after receiving a stem cell transplant earlier than current methods, according to a pilot study. ... Read more

October 18, 2017October 18, 2017

Incysus Advances T-Cell Therapy into Phase 1 Trial for Blood Cancers

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Incysus and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are advancing the company’s investigational gamma-delta (γδ) T-cell therapy into a Phase 1 clinical study for the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma ... Read more

October 6, 2017October 6, 2017

CCRM and Affigen Partner to Develop Personalized Therapeutics for B-Cell Lymphoma, Leukemia

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CCRM, a Canadian nonprofit that develops regenerative medicine technologies, and Affigen will collaborate on the development and commercialization of a closed platform that produces targeted therapies personalized for a patient’s ... Read more

August 21, 2017August 21, 2017

High-dose Vitamin C May Be Effective Against Lymphoma, Other Blood Cancers, Say Researchers

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Vitamin C boosts processes that allow faulty blood stem cells to die instead of multiplying uncontrollably to cause lymphoma or other blood cancers, say researchers at NYU Langone Health‘s Perlmutter Cancer ... Read more

April 25, 2017

Transplant Donor Program Wants Higher US Government Reimbursement of Hospital Costs

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Ninety-seven percent of American leukemia, lymphoma and other blood-cancer-related transplants are done in hospitals, but Medicare and Medicaid are proposing increases in transplant-operation reimbursements that fail to cover many hospital ... Read more

April 3, 2017April 3, 2017

Researchers May Be Able to Use AID Protein in Cancer Cells to Kill Them

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Cancer cells expressing the AID protein are particularly susceptible to treatments that modulate the activity of the DNA repair protein RAD51, according to preclinical-trial studies from Cyteir Therapeutics. The company presented ... Read more

March 6, 2017

British Military Service Not Linked to Higher Risk of Lymphoma and Leukemia, Study Finds

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British veterans living in Scotland are at no greater risk of lymphoma or leukemia than the general population, a finding that offers reassurance that military service is not associated with ... Read more