In The News
The latest news reports, articles, and stories that may be of importance to leukemia and lymphoma patients, caregivers, and family members.
New Leukemia Research and Treatment Options
May 21, 2013 - The internationally-recognized Leukemia Program at the Kimmel Cancer Center is directed by Judith Karp, M.D., professor of oncology. Dr. Karp leads a team of clinicians and scientists making discoveri... more >>
AML Cancer Genomes Characterized
May 1, 2013 - A study from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program reveal details about the genomic landscape of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The study provides insights into the molecular underpinnings of these ca... more >>
Therapy Developed to Treat Leukemia
April 17, 2013 - A new, pre-clinical study by researchers at Virginia Commomwealth University Massey Cancer Center suggests that a novel drug combination could lead to profound leukemia cell death by disrupting the fu... more >>
NIH Trial Shows Promising Results
April 10, 2013 - Patients with a type of cancer known as primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma who received infusions of chemotherapy, but who didi not have rediation therapy to an area of the thorax known as the medias... more >>
Immune Therapy Shows Early Promise
March 20, 2013 - An experimental therapy that targets the immune system might offer a new way to treat an often deadly form of adult leukemia. The study involved five adults with recurrent B-cell acute lymphoblastic l... more >>
Donor T-cells Improves Leukemia Survival
February 27, 2013 - In a significant advance for harnessing the immune system to treat leukemias, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for the first time have successfully infused large numbers of donor ... more >>
Vorinostat Effective at Treating Relapsed Lymphomas
February 4, 2013 - Patients whose aggressive lymphomas have relapsed or failed to respond to the current front-line chemotherapy regimen now have an effective second line of attack against their disease. Reporting the r... more >>
Mutations Linked to Relapse of ALL
February 3, 2013 - After an intensive three-year hunt through the genome, medical researchers have pinpointed mutations that leads to drug resistance and relapse in the most common type of childhood cancer -- the first ... more >>
Healthy Cells Key to Fighting Leukemia
January 22, 2013 - Instead of focusing on the elimination of cancer cells, maintaining a stable population of healthy blood cells in the bone marrow could be the most effective way to fight against leukemia.
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New Way to Kill Lymphoma
January 21, 2013 - How do you annihilate lymphoma without any drugs? Starve it to death by depriving it of what appears to be a favorite food: HDL cholesterol. Northwestern Medicine researchers discovered this with a ne... more >>
Genetic Basis of High-Risk Childhood Cancer
January 20, 2013 - Reachers led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified a possible lead in treatment of two childhood leukemia subtypes know for their dramatic loss of chromosomes and poor tr... more >>
Drug Targets Hard to Reach Leukemia Stem Cells
January 17, 2013 - Reachers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that a hard-to-reach, drug resistant leukemia stem cells (LSCs) that overexpress muliple pro-survival protein for... more >>
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