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Single Cell Sequencing May help Prevent Leukemia

New method can be used to distinguish cancer stem cells, mature cancer cells and healthy stem cells based on their genetics and gene expression, as per the study in journal Nature Communications . Most cancerous tissue consists of rapidly ...

New Therapy Holds potential in treating Leukemia

Dopamine receptor-inhibiting drug thioridazine could serve as a new therapy for patients, and their focus on adult AML has revealed encouraging results. AML is a particularly deadly cancer that starts with a DNA mutation in the blood stem cells ...

Stem Cell Therapy In Dogs Offer Hope In Human Diseases

Dogs remain faithful companions to humans ever since their domestication thousands of years ago. Although the improvements in veterinary medicine have increased the life expectancy of dogs, it has simultaneously invited the occurrence of chronic ...

Larger Gene Panel Discovers Better Treatment Targets For Leukemia

Gene panel that can scan the number of cancer-causing genes about 10 times than the panels currently used for diagnosing and fine-tuning the treatment for a variety of cancers, is said to offer effective identification of problematic genes in the ...

New Treatment Prolongs Lives of Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia

In patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), administering the cancer drug azacitidine as a maintenance treatment had improved overall survival, according to a randomized, international phase 3 clinical trial for which Weill Cornell Medicine and ...

Combination Therapy May Help Treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Synergistic effect of two drugs that are potent against acute myeloid leukemia (AML) when combined, but only weakly effective when used as single-agent therapy, is identified by a study, a collaboration between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical ...

Link Between ADC Parameters, Survival In Lymphoma Analyzed

Study "Diffusion-weighted MR imaging histogram analysis in HIV positive and negative patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma as a predictor of outcome and tumor proliferation" by Khan, et al published in Oncotarget is done to ...

Brain Stem Cells Divide Over Months, Says Study

The stem cells in the hippocampus (brain region) of mice were found to be active over a period of several months, stated researchers published in Nature Neuroscience. Stem cells create new nerve cells in the brain over the entire life span. ...

Overcoming Resistance To MTOR Inhibitors In Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Rapamycin is the first mTOR inhibitor that targets unwanted cell proliferation. Cancer experts believe that drugs targeting mTOR would become a breakthrough targeted therapy for children and adults suffering relapses of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) ...

Novel Treatment Kills Lymphoma While Sparing Healthy Cells

Lymphomas are a group of cancers that begin in the infection-fighting cells of the immune system called lymphocytes. A new promising strategy has been developed for treating lymphomas. The study conducted by scientists at Scripps Research is ...

New Drugs Hold Promise to Treat Blood, Bone Marrow Cancers

Novel class of targeted cancer drugs may prove effective in treating common types of leukemia, according to a new study by researchers in Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Institute and Lerner Research Institute. The results appeared in Blood ...

New Drug Improves Survival in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

When first-line chemotherapy regimen was combined with monoclonal antibody blinatumomab in a newly diagnosed high-risk form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) known as Philadelphia chromosome-negative B-cell ALL (Ph-negative B-ALL), an increase ...

Reducing Infectious Diarrhea in Organ Transplant and Leukemia Patients

The most common form of infectious diarrhea in hospitalized patients is caused by bacteria Clostridium difficile. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) results in inflammation of the colon. The most vulnerable population to develop CDI are those ...

Discontinuing Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors can Improve Outcomes in Leukemia Patients

Discontinuing Tyrosine Kinase inhibitor (TKI) is safe in patients suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). This has shown better patient reported outcomes. CML is a cancer of the white blood cells. It is characterized by increased and ...

Scientists Reveal the Way Stem Cells Protect Chromosome Ends

Telomeres, the specialized structures at the end of chromosomes which protect our DNA and ensure healthy division of cells, are protected in a unique way, as per the new study from researchers at the Francis Crick Institute published in Nature . ...

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Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of bone marrow stem cell disorders marked by ineffective blood cell production and low counts in the peripheral blood.

BK Virus Infection

BK virus infection remains asymptomatic for a long time. But BK virus infection after kidney transplant can harm the patient due to reduction in immunity with potent immunosuppressive agents.

Paired Donor Exchange Kidney Transplantation

Paired donor exchange kidney transplantation is a process in which unrelated kidney donors are matched to recipients so that compatible transplants can be performed.

Tibia (Shinbone) Shaft Fractures

A tibial shaft fracture is an injury that occurs to the tibia, which is one of the long bones of the leg. Causes, symptoms, diagnosis of shinbone are discussed.

Renal Osteodystrophy / Mineral Bone Disorder

Renal Osteodystrophy which is referred to as Mineral Bone Disorder is a result of imbalance in calcium, phosphorus, parathyroid hormone and Vitamin D levels.

Osteomyelitis

An infection of a bone is called osteomyelitis. Osteomyelitis can be acute or a chronic and can spread through the haematogenous or contiguous route.

Bone Marrow Transplantation - Animation

Animation and slides providing graphic explanation of Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)/Stem Cell Transplantation that is done for leukemia and other blood-related disorders.

Hodgkins Lymphoma

Hodgkins lymphoma or Hodgkins disease has the distinction of being the first cancer to be cured by chemotherapy or by radiotherapy.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Acute myeloid Leukemia, more popularly known by its abbreviated form AML, is a fast- evolving leukemia that affects both children and adults alike

Acute Leukemias

Patients with an acute leukemia often present with signs and symptoms of bone marrow failure, such as fatigue and pallor, fever, infection and/or bleeding with purpura and petechiae.