Sentences with phrase «patient with leukemia»

Currently, CAR - T cell therapies are approved to treat patients with leukemia.

2/12/2008 Gene Therapy Protocol at UCSD Activates Immune System in Patients with Leukemia A research team at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reports that patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who were treated with a gene therapy protocol began making antibodies that r...

Azab's team also is studying how well the screening method works for patients with leukemia or lymphoma, which are cancers of the blood.

Her studies of the stem cells in bone marrow and their requirements for successful growth have contributed to advances in transplantation techniques that have saved the lives of patients with leukemia and other blood cancers.

«I know of one patient with leukemia whose life was saved by the stem cells she received from a cord blood transplant,» says Dr. Robert O. Atlas, the chair of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore.

Technically we can not say that we saved his life, because patients with leukemia can relapse at any time.

The process, developed by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also may aid patients with leukemia or lymphoma.

The video drove home the importance of the registry as it strives to serve patients with leukemia, sickle cell anemia, and other blood cancers.

Based on these results, we believe that evaluation of obesity in patients with leukemia should include direct measures of body composition.»

A practicing oncologist caring for patients with leukemia, Dr. Sharpless also leads a research group studying the cell cycle and its role in cancer and aging.

«Dr. Rassool and her colleagues have identified an exciting new mechanism for attacking cancer that may ultimately provide a new option for treating patients with leukemia and other cancers,» says E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of UMSOM.

If so, says Grover Bagby, a hematologist who directs the Oregon Cancer Center at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, further work to decipher the protein's exact function could shed light on how to treat a much larger population of patients with leukemia, certain other forms of cancer, and aplastic anemia.

Stem cell transplants can save lives, for example in patients with leukemia.

It's been shown in mouse models that CAR T cells could do this, and now it's been shown in our studies that they can do this in patients with leukemia.

Hematopoetic stem cell mobilization in patients with Leukemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma

As Director of the Hematologic Malignancies / Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, Dr. Collins is proud that UT Southwestern offers the best care in the area for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and myelomas.

Isolation and characterization of mesenchymal adult bone marrow stem cells (MSC) and hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) from healthy donors and patients with leukemia.

For years now, bone marrow transplants have been used to treat patients with leukemia and other blood disorders.

Bradley Wayne Blaser, M.D., Ph.D., of Boston Children's Hospital, is the studying the factors that control blood cell development, with the goal of improving immunotherapies for patients with leukemia.

Minimal residual disease (MRD) detection in patients with leukemia has proven to be useful in the clinical management of disease and can facilitate the development of new therapies.

The ultimate goal of this work is to contribute to the design of effective therapeutic approaches that target dysregulated ER functions for patients with leukemia and other malignancies.

In patients with leukemia, immature cells called «blasts» overtake their healthy bone marrow.

Carl June of the University of Pennsylvania and Michel Sadelain of Memorial Sloan - Kettering — both winners of the 2012 Coley Award — are leading efforts to develop this approach, which has already shown remarkable success in patients with leukemia.

Cytogenetic identification of chromosome abnormalities has become essential for the clinical management of patients with leukemia and is currently used to help categorizing patients into risk groups.

In a recent study where organic arsenic was given to 12 patients with leukemia, 11 went into remission.