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Study finds how to shutdown cancer's powerful master protein

The powerful master regulatory transcription factor called Bcl6 is key to the survival of a majority of aggressive lymphomas, which arise from the B-cells of the immune system. The protein has long been considered too complex ...

Immunology created Mar 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gold nanoparticles show new way to kill lymphoma without chemotherapy

How do you annihilate lymphoma without using any drugs? Starve it to death by depriving it of what appears to be a favorite food: HDL cholesterol.

Cancer created Jan 21, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New protein-targeting drug shows promise in early trial for patients with high-risk CLL

A new oral targeted drug, idelalisib (GS-1101), has the potential to stave off the need for additional treatments for relapsed or treatment-resistant chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to a study led in part by ...

Cancer created May 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery of new class of damage-prone DNA regions could lead to better cancer treatments

Cancer is thought to arise from DNA damage at fragile sites in the genome. A study published by Cell Press on January 24th in the journal Cell reveals a new class of fragile sites that contributes to DNA ...

Cancer created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Genome sequencing of Burkitt Lymphoma reveals unique mutation

In the first broad genetic landscape mapped of a Burkitt lymphoma tumor, scientists at Duke Medicine and their collaborators identified 70 mutations, including several that had not previously been associated with cancer and ...

Genetics created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify new target for lung cancer treatment

A team of UC Davis investigators has discovered a protein on the surface of lung cancer cells that could prove to be an important new target for anti-cancer therapy. A series of experiments in mice with lung cancer showed ...

Cancer created Nov 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solving puzzle of B-cell lymphoma development

Germinal centers are sites in the organs of the lymphatic system, formed during the course of an immune response to infection, where B cells intensely proliferate and modify their DNA in order to produce ...

Immunology created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

B cell survival holds key to chronic graft vs. host disease

Leukemia and lymphoma patients who receive life-saving stem cell or bone marrow transplants often experience chronic side effects that significantly decrease quality of life, can last a lifetime, and ultimately affect their ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New key element discovered in pathogenesis of Burkitt lymphoma

Burkitt lymphoma is a malignant, fast-growing tumor that originates from a subtype of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system and often affects internal organs and the central nervous system. Now Dr. Sandrine ...

Cancer created Aug 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research provides breakthrough in understanding common cancer

Researchers from the University of Sheffield have discovered valuable insight into how people develop B-cell lymphoma, one of the most common cancers in the UK.

Cancer created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Immunotherapy showed promising antileukemia activity in pediatric patients

Researchers using patients' own immune cells in an immunotherapy approach called "anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy," achieved responses in children whose acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had returned ...

Cancer created Apr 07, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ibrutinib has 'unprecedented' impact on mantle cell lymphoma

An international study of ibrutinib in people with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) continues to show unprecedented and durable results with few side effects.

Cancer created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Weekly dose reduces targeted drug's side effects, but not its activity against ALL

A potent chemotherapy agent wrapped within a monoclonal antibody selectively destroys the malignant cells responsible for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) in either weekly or monthly dosing, researchers report at the 54th ...

Cancer created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Effects of alcohol on lymphoma, leukemia, and other types of hematological cancers

Many observational epidemiologic studies have found an inverse association between alcohol consumption and hematological cancers (such as lymphoma and leukemia). This study, based on the Million Women's Study in the UK, is ...

Cancer created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mutation ID'd in Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia

(HealthDay)—MYD88 L265P is a common, recurring mutation in patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, according to a study published in the Aug. 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Cancer created Aug 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0