Every year, 1.1 million new cases of blood cancers are diagnosed worldwide. Presently, chemotherapy remains the most common and effective course of treatment. However, the emergence of more aggressive ...

Since the first targeted therapies for blood cancer were developed more than 20 years ago, doctors and scientists have observed that many patients who respond well to these drugs initially end up ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago have identified a gene defect that causes the development of leukemia in children with Down syndrome. The discovery, scheduled for Advance Online Publication ...

HHMI researchers have discovered how a new generation of drugs thwarts a deadly mutation that causes chronic myelogenous leukemia. HHMI researchers have discovered how a new generation of drugs ...

While childhood leukemia is the most common type of cancer in children, leukemia in children younger than a year old is very rare. In fact, only about 160 infants in the United States are diagnosed ...

Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) is a type of cancer that affects your blood and bone marrow. According to the National Cancer Institute, B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common type of ...

In a recent case report published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers described a neurologic disease caused by pigeon avian paramyxovirus type 1 (PPMV-1) that led to the death of ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. AML specifically affects the myeloid cells, which are immature white blood cells. It is one of the most ...

CNL is a rare type of cancer that causes an increased production of neutrophils. It is a type of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN). MPNs are blood cancers that start with problems in a stem cell in ...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) are two different types of cancer that affect the blood and bone marrow. In people with CML, the body creates abnormal white ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, has revealed a terminal diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia with a rare ...