A new study in the August 2022 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network suggests a new way for hematologic oncologists to protect older patients from the risks of medication interactions.
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Results of an international clinical trial co-led by researchers at Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University show potential for a novel drug to benefit patients with multiple myeloma whose disease either recurred or was ...
Aug 3, 2022
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Clonal hematopoiesis is a biological process in which a blood stem cell (the population that gives rise to a variety of blood cell types) acquires an advantageous mutation and outgrows neighboring cells. Clonal hematopoiesis ...
Aug 2, 2022
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One promising treatment for patients with blood cancers is stem cell transplantation. Doctors completely eliminate the patient's immune system by aiming chemotherapy, radiation or both at their bone marrow before replacing ...
Jul 14, 2022
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People with hematologic malignancies—or blood cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma—have an impaired immune system due to their disease and its treatment, putting them at risk of severe COVID-19 infection ...
Jul 11, 2022
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A new insight into RNA regulation has taken researchers a big step forward in understanding how the body creates platelets.
Jul 5, 2022
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New research from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has found that high levels in the bloodstream of a key protein involved in blood clotting called von Willebrand Factor, can lead to poorer outcomes for breast ...
Jun 30, 2022
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Researchers have developed a way to potentially reduce the toxic side-effects of a type of immunotherapy, in findings that could overcome the pioneering treatment's biggest limitation.
Jun 21, 2022
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When someone gets an infection, most people think it's the immune system kicking into gear when they feel some of the body's natural defenses like a fever, chills, or fatigue. What most people don't know is that it's actually ...
Jun 8, 2022
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After surgery, some cancer patients can safely skip radiation or chemotherapy, according to two studies exploring shorter, gentler cancer care.
Jun 7, 2022
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