Not exact matches
Sequencing tiny bits of DNA circulating in the blood of
patients with
lymphoma can accurately identify the cancer subtype and pinpoint mutations that might cause drug resistance,
according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Patients with a history of breast cancer or lymphoma were more than three times as likely to develop heart failure — a condition in which the heart can't pump enough blood to meet the body's needs — compared with a similar group of patients who did not have cancer, according to data being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific
Patients with a history of breast cancer or
lymphoma were more than three times as likely to develop heart failure — a condition in which the heart can't pump enough blood to meet the body's needs — compared with a similar group of
patients who did not have cancer, according to data being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific
patients who did not have cancer,
according to data being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session.
According to The National Cancer Institute, 8,260 people in the United States were diagnosed with Hodgkin
lymphoma last year and approximately 1,070
patients with non-Hodgkin
lymphoma died from the disease in 2017.
The combination of rituximab (Rituxan) and the novel immunotherapy pidilizumab (CT - 011) is both active and well tolerated in follicular
lymphoma patients,
according to results of a phase II trial presented by Jason R. Westin, MD, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in Atlanta.
Anti-PD-1 antibody therapy enhances eradication of refractory Hodgkin
lymphoma (HL), and when used in combination with other agents may help improve outcomes for leukemia
patients,
according to a report in the journal Leukemia Research.
Administration of chemotherapy to
patients hospitalized with diffuse large B cell
lymphoma (DLBCL) was associated with lower odds of death during hospitalization,
according to the results of a study published in Cancer Epidemiology.
Progression - free survival and overall survival curves of
patients with peripheral T - cell
lymphoma not otherwise specified
according to histone modifier gene mutations.
A combination of complementary immunotherapy drugs brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris ®) and nivolumab (Opdivo ®) destroyed most cancer cells in 64 percent of
patients with recurrent Hodgkin
lymphoma, according to the results of an early - phase clinical trial led by Catherine M. Diefenbach, MD, assistant professor of medicine and director of the Clinical Lymphoma
lymphoma,
according to the results of an early - phase clinical trial led by Catherine M. Diefenbach, MD, assistant professor of medicine and director of the Clinical
Lymphoma Lymphoma Program.
Thirty - six percent of over 100 very ill
lymphoma patients appeared disease - free six months after a single treatment,
according to results released by the treatment's maker, Kite Pharma of Santa Monica, Calif..