Leukemia News

A Surely you have read or heard that "My Sister's Keeper," based on a novel by Jodi Picoult, is about a teenager with leukemia.

Souweine died in April after a five-year battle with leukemia, a cancer of the bone marrow, and Judith Souweine, his high school sweetheart and wife of 40 years, said she is riding in this year's Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research, but also to remember her husband's love of athletics and the outdoors.

The Fitzgerald family is coping with a sick child, and the story is built on a moral dilemma.

There may be an association between high birth weight and an increased risk of overall leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia .

New research describes a molecular tool that shows great promise as a therapeutic for human acute myeloid leukemia , a notoriously treatment-resistant blood cancer.

A A The Week in Pictures Subway mermaids, a bat in flight and a woman named Neda are among this collection of noteworthy images from around the world.

Bio-Matrix Scientific Group, Inc. , a San Diego-based biotechnology company, announced today the launch of a national marketing program aimed at hospitals in need of storing umbilical cord blood specimens for future transplantation.

Survivors of childhood cancer run particular risks when pregnant and should be closely monitored, the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard today .

Drama. Starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva and Jason Patric.

Sofia Vassilieva had no doubts about the physical and emotional challenges of playing a young teen dying of leukemia in My Sister's Keeper which opened on June 26.

Main Category: Lymphoma / Leukemia Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Yaupon Therapeutics, a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, has announced it has completed enrollment for a pivotal Phase 2 clinical trial for Clearazide for the treatment of early-stage cutaneous T-cell lymphoma .

Jun 29, 2009 - CytRx Corporation , a biopharmaceutical research and development company engaged in the development of high-value human therapeutics, today provided a favorable progress update for its ongoing Phase 2 STAR-1 registration clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of orally administered tamibarotene as a third-line treatment ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Sofia Vassilieva cried uncontrollably the first time she saw herself in the makeup that would transform her into a young woman dying of leukemia for "My Sister's Keeper." "We were doing the screen test.

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He had a bone marrow transplant due to leukemia and has been in the hospital ever since, and has declined in health to the point that this request is literally a matter of life and death for this little boy.

Saint Jude's Children Hospital is now capable of treating the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

There were plenty of sniffles at the premiere of My Sister's Keeper , a movie about a family affected by their only daughter dying of leukemia, at the AMC Lincoln Square on Wednesday, June 24.

Three young men set out to beat a golfing record and raise money for a friend's brother this week, and they succeeded in doing both.

When Cristina Cooke took her two-year-old son Xavier to the doctor's office, she thought he had another ear infection-or maybe it was his molars.