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WATCH: MD Anderson patient battling leukemia wins $100k from 'Diesel Brothers'
“This all happened for a reason, I mean, someone’s looking out for you and you entered a contest, and you won because you needed it the most,” Diesel Dave told Abel Fonseca II.
How Some Leukemia Patients May Soon Skip Chemo
More cancers are being treated with new anti-cancer drugs that allow patients to do without chemo
How to Win the Battle Against Cervical Cancer
Thanks to early detection and treatment, deaths due to cervical cancer have dropped in recent decades throughout most of the developed world. Yet inequitable access to screening and medical services place the mortality burden largely on the lives of women in low and middle-income countries. Every year cervical cancer claims the lives of over 200,000 … Continued
Many Breast Cancer Patients May Not Need Chemo
Genetic test can help doctors determine who can safely avoid treatment after surgery
Breast cancer patients live longer when they eat more soy
Breast cancer patients who eat the most soy foods are also less likely to die early, a new study finds.
What Part Does Genetics Play in Pediatric Leukemia?
Leukemia, which usually occurs because of a mutation — or DNA change — is the most common childhood cancer. Some genetic syndromes can create a predisposition to leukemia, as well as other blood disorders.
Cancer treatments: Patients need to know heart risks
Specialists warn that many people undergoing cancer treatment receive neither appropriate information about heart risks nor sufficient monitoring for them.
Make-A-Wish Helps Leukemia Patient Become A Farmer
The good people of Waterloo, IA came together to give a young cancer patient a day he’ll never forget.
LL Cool J on How Wife Simone's Battle With Cancer Inspired Activism
The rapper and his wife are opening up to ET about paying it forward after her fight with cancer.
Getting through: How 8 survivors battled breast cancer
After a breast cancer diagnosis comes the challenge of treatment. Chemotherapy, surgery, radiation and other procedures can be exhausting and overwhelming. Yet somehow, women find the strength to endure and
How Calling Cancer a 'Fight' or 'Battle' Can Harm Patients
War metaphors can lead to feelings of guilt and failure
What Are the Symptoms of Leukemia?
Many leukemia symptoms occur in most types of the disease, from acute myeloid leukemia to chronic lymphocytic leukemia and others.
When Battling Cancer, Patients Often Face Hefty Expenses
Advances in treatment, including new drugs and high-tech procedures, can be costly, even for those with insurance.
How Are Leukemia and Lymphoma Different?
Understand the differences between leukemia and lymphoma, such as their origins, cells, incident, age at diagnosis and more? How are they similar?
What’s New in the Treatment of Pediatric Leukemia?
Medically reviewed by Lewis Silverman, MD A greater understanding of the genomics of pediatric leukemia — the genetic errors and irregularities that underlie the disease — has enabled researchers to divide the disease into additional subtypes. This has improved physicians’ ability to identify patients with an increased risk of relapse and to prescribe treatments to … Continued
What You Need To Know About Leukemia
WHAT EXACTLY IS LEUKEMIA? Leukemia is cancer of the blood. Blood has a number of cells in it. Among them are white cells that fight infection, red cells that carry oxygen and platelets that cause…
Leukemia: When Cancer is in Your Blood
Leukemia – like all cancers – results from the wrong kind of cells growing in the body. Unlike normal cells, these cancer cells don’t die, they continue to divide and eventually crowd out the healthy cells.
10 Signs That You May Have Leukemia
When we hear the word cancer we are probably quick to think of things like skin cancer, lung cancer, or maybe even especially unforgiving forms of cancer such as pancreatic cancer. Leukemia is a type
How are Adult and Pediatric Leukemia Alike and Different?
Leukemia is a blood cancer that results when stem cells in the bone marrow produce abnormal blood cells.
What Are the Differences Between Lymphocytic and Myelogenous Leukemia?
Leukemia arises from malfunctions in stem cells within the bone marrow that cause abnormal white blood cells to flood into the bloodstream. Leukemias are classified as either myelogenous (also called myeloid) or lymphocytic depending on which types of white blood cells are affected. If the abnormal cells are primarily granulocytes …
