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September 9, 2016

Blood Disorders Cost €23 Billion to European Economy

July 22, 2016 — Healthcare costs per patient with blood cancers are two times higher than average cancer costs, due to long hospital stays and complex treatment and diagnosis, a new report ... read more

Everolimus R-CHOP Combination Safe for Treating Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma

June 29, 2016 — The targeted therapy everolimus may be safely combined with R-CHOP for new, untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma according to the results of a pilot study. R-CHOP is a combination of drugs used to ... read more

Common Chemical Highly Toxic to Blood Cell Precursors

June 24, 2016 — Scientists have provided evidence that a widely used chemical is more toxic to certain blood cell precursors in the bone marrow than to ... read more

Targeting B-Cell Malignancies With ?-Specific T Cells Can Lead to Complete Clinical Responses

June 6, 2016 — Targeting the light chain expressed by malignant B cells killed tumor cells while sparing normal B cells expressing the other type of light chain, report researchers at conclusion of a recent ... read more

Increase in Obesity Among Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients May Be Linked to Disease Relapse

June 6, 2016 — A new study used advanced imaging methods to evaluate obesity, and suggests a relationship between obesity and disease ... read more

Cancer Cell Immunity in the Crosshairs: Worth the Expense?

June 3, 2016 — Scientists have found unique genetic alterations that could indicate whether expensive immune checkpoint inhibitors would be effective for a particular patient. Their study reports that genetic ... read more

Teenagers and Young Adults Still Fare Worse Than Children for Many Common Cancers, According to Europe-Wide Study

May 26, 2016 — More young people of all ages are surviving cancer than ever before, but new research shows that adolescents and young adults have a lower chance of surviving eight relatively common types of cancer ... read more

Researchers Reveal How New Class of Drugs Kills Cancer Cells

May 20, 2016 — A researcher team has worked out how a new class of anti-cancer drugs kills cancer cells, a finding that helps explain how cancer cells may become resistant to ... read more

HIV-Infected Patients More Likely to Lack Cancer Treatment

May 17, 2016 — HIV-infected patients with cancer in the United States appear to be less likely to receive cancer treatment, regardless of insurance and other existing health conditions, a new report ... read more

Combination Therapy Incorporating Three New Agents Shows Promise as Treatment for Aggressive Lymphoma

Apr. 20, 2016 — New research shows that promising cancer drugs used in combination can have significant therapeutic impact on a particularly aggressive subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DH-DLBCL) in ... read more

People With Hepatitis C Are Two to Five Times More Likely to Develop Certain Head and Neck Cancers

Apr. 13, 2016 — Long associated with liver cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a study reveals for the first time that the hepatitis C virus is associated with certain head and neck ... read more

Gut Bacteria Could Help Prevent Cancer

Apr. 13, 2016 — New research offers evidence that anti-inflammatory 'health beneficial' gut bacteria can slow or stop the development of some types of ... read more

PET Scans Guiding Chemo Boosts Remission for Hodgkin Patients

Apr. 12, 2016 — Using PET imaging to guide chemotherapy treatment significantly increases the number of people who go into remission and also decreases toxic side effects for people with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma, ... read more

Lymphoma Overrides a Key Protein's Quadruple Locks

Mar. 22, 2016 — Protein chemists report they are closer to explaining why certain blood cancers are able to crack a molecular security system and run rampant. In a detailed description of their discoveries in ... read more

New Class of Drugs Specifically Induces Cell Death in B Cell Blood Cancers

Mar. 10, 2016 — New research shows how one protein found on the endoplasmic reticulum can serve as a target for stimulating the immune system and a more direct target for cellular death in B cell malignancies. B ... read more

Early MRI Screening Reduces Risk of Breast Cancer Death for Survivors of Childhood Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Mar. 1, 2016 — Early screening with MRIs can reduce breast cancer mortality for female survivors of childhood Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) who received chest radiation, researchers have confirmed in a screening ... read more

Stress Wakes Up Sleeping Herpes Viruses – but How?

Feb. 24, 2016 — Hiding their DNA genome inside the nucleus of the infected cells, the herpes viruses establish a lifelong infection in humans, and they are known to reactivate in response to different kinds of ... read more

Crafting a Better T Cell for Immunotherapy

Feb. 22, 2016 — T-cell therapy, a form of immunotherapy, involves engineering the patient's T cells in the laboratory to carry new proteins that guide the immune cells directly to tumor cells, allowing the ... read more

Weight and Height During Adolescence May Impact Future Risk of Developing Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Feb. 22, 2016 — A new analysis indicates that higher body weight and taller stature during adolescence increase the risk of developing Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer of the lymphatic ... read more

First-in-Class Drug ONC201 Shows Potential for Some Blood Cancers

Feb. 16, 2016 — ONC201, an anti-cancer drug that triggers cell death in various tumor types, may have clinical potential for some blood cancers including mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), ... read more
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