Leukemia News

Christopher Deigh plays the drums with his gospel group during a concert at Mt. Zion Mission Baptist Church to celebrate graduating from college and being cancer-free for three years.

Abstracts are now available on the ASCO 2013 website . This year yet again MolMed had an important number of studies accepted for presentation at ASCO meeting, confirming the quality of our clinical development programme.

Leung Tsz-yan, a Chinese University of Hong Kong alumna, is fighting for her life - and hopes maybe you can help.

In 1959 scientists caught their first glimpse of a genetic mutation, 'the Philadelphia chromosome' and began unraveling the mysterious role it plays in chronic myeloid leukemia ; the discovery led to the eventual cure for this once extremely lethal cancer.

Before the walk begins Thursday to Washington Park student and leukemia patient John Tierney's house, school faculty and some students will shave their heads in the school fieldhouse.

AbbVie today announced that data evaluating several investigational compounds in the company's oncology pipeline will be presented at the upcoming 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, May 31 - June 4, Chicago.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 12R24 and The Beer Store are joining forces in an effort to help find a cure for leukemia - the No.

Jessicah Peters/Bluffton Today Kelly, Jill and Leo Vannoni will be heading to Walt Disney World in September with the help of Bluffton Middle School students through Make-A-Wish South Carolina.

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It is vanishingly rare for an experimental treatment to wipe out advanced, recurrent cancer, then keep the disease from coming back.

In figure a, the contours represent cell density in each region... NEW YORK, NY - In their quest to learn more about the variability of cells between and within tissues, biomedical scientists have devised tools capable of simultaneously measuring dozens of characteristics of individual cells.

Imaging scans following treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma do little to help detect a relapse, a Mayo Clinic study has found.

Positive results have been reported from a phase III trial that compared the combination of either obinutuzumab or MabThera/Rituxan and chlorambucil, a standard chemotherapy, with chlorambucil alone in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia .

There's one drawback to having the stock market indexes hit record highs yet again: It makes finding truly horrendous health-care stocks for our weekly series much more challenging.

Lisa Garys Korsland enjoyed a busy lifestyle for years, living abroad in the U.K. and Switzerland, raising her three children and working as an engineer for General Mills.

Seven-year-old Jericho Rajninger of Larkspur may be shy, but he is fighting leukemia in a loud way by helping other children who face adversity smile.

Memorial services for David Alexander Coats will be held at First Presbyterian Church on May 20, 2013, at 1 p.m. with the Rev.

A massage is the application of pressure onto the skin from hands, feet or elbows to the superficial muscles.

The medication that keeps me alive costs about $8,500 a month. It's called Tasigna, and it belongs to a group of chemotherapy drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors, or TKIs.

We used long-distance inverse-polymerase chain reaction to characterize the chromosomal rearrangement of individual acute leukemia patients.