In people with central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma, cancerous B cells—a type of white blood cell—accumulate to form tumors in the brain or spinal cord, often in close proximity to blood vessels. This disease is quite ...
Feb 17, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The Burkitt lymphoma (BL) International Prognostic Index (BL-IPI) provides robust discrimination of survival and can be used for prognostication, according to a study published online Jan. 27 in the Journal ...
Feb 12, 2021
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Cell-based gene therapy Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel) has been approved to treat adults with certain types of large B-cell lymphoma who have not responded to other systemic treatment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
Feb 9, 2021
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Among patients with lymphoma admitted to the hospital for severe COVID-19, those treated with B-cell-depleting therapies within the previous 12 months had an increased risk of prolonged hospital stay and death, according ...
Feb 4, 2021
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Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR T, has been a breakthrough in the treatment of blood cancers such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Clinical studies have shown overall response ...
Feb 2, 2021
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A first-of-its-kind Australian study has revealed rates of brain lymphoma have quadrupled since the 1980s with only 33% of people surviving five years after receiving a diagnosis.
Feb 2, 2021
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Scientists at Northwestern Medicine have developed a novel therapy to trick cancer cells into gobbling up what they think is their favorite food—cholesterol—which actually triggers their destruction. What appears to them ...
Jan 26, 2021
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MDC researchers have developed a new approach to CAR T-cell therapy. The team has shown in Nature Communications that the procedure is very effective, especially when it comes to fighting follicular lymphomas and chronic ...
Jan 11, 2021
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Scientists at Scripps Research have demonstrated a promising new strategy for treating lymphomas, a group of cancers that begin in infection-fighting cells of the immune system called lymphocytes.
Dec 16, 2020
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Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with 68Ga-pentixafor is an effective diagnostic tool for central nervous system (CNS) B-cell lymphoma, according to a proof-of-concept study published in the December issue of The ...
Dec 10, 2020
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