Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/lymphoma-leukemia/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240945.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240945.php Hispanic children are more likely than those from other racial and ethnic backgrounds to be diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and are more likely to die of their disease. Work led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists has pinpointed genetic factors behind the grim statistics...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240872.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240872.phpUniversity of Rochester Medical Center researchers have discovered new links between leukemia cells and cells involved in bone formation, offering a fresh perspective on how the blood cancer progresses and raising the possibility that therapies for bone disorders could help in the treatment of leukemia. The research, led by graduate student Benjamin J. Frisch in the James P...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240834.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240834.phpFor the first time in Germany, a woman has given birth to a child after removal and preservation of tissue from one of her ovaries. This course of action was necessary to avoid infertility owing to chemo- and radiotherapy. Andreas Müller and his colleagues report the case in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[1-2]: 8-13)...Fertility Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240793.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240793.phpLeukemic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (L-CTCL) is a leukemia arising from T-cells, a type of white blood cell. This cancer can involve the skin and other organs, and patients often die within three years. Rachael A...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240669.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240669.phpTargeting a single protein can help fight both breast cancers and leukemias, according to two reports published online in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The single protein is HSP90, which acts as a chaperone to protect other proteins in the cell...Breast Cancer Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240653.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240653.phpAlthough significant progress has been made in treating chronic myeloid leukemia, the disease cannot yet be eliminated in all patients, and that challenge must be addressed, states a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).). Likening the journey to find a cure for chronic myeloid leukemia as a marathon, cancer expert Dr...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240547.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240547.phpAn inherited mutation in a gene known as the guardian of the genome is likely the link between exploding chromosomes and some particularly aggressive types of cancer, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) and the University Hospital, all in Heidelberg, Germany, have discovered...Cancer / Oncology Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240529.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240529.phpA study published this week in the journal Leukemia identifies a mechanism that acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells use to evade chemotherapy - and details how to close this escape route...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240430.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240430.phpA natural enzyme derived from human blood plasma showed potential in significantly reducing the effects of graft-vs.-host disease, a common and deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplants. Researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center looked at the drug alpha-1-antitrypsin, which is approved by the U.S...Immune System / Vaccines Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240419.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240419.phpMelbourne researchers have discovered that acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer with poor prognosis, may be susceptible to medications that target a protein called Mcl-1...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240421.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240421.phpPromising findings on a novel combination treatment approach for a chronic type of skin lymphoma are published in JAMA's Archives of Dermatology by clinical researchers from Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240284.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240284.phpA new study published in the journal Nature Medicine by NYU Cancer Institute researchers, shows how the cancer causing gene Notch, in combination with a mutated Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) protein complex, work together to cause T- cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). T-ALL is an aggressive blood cancer, predominately diagnosed in children...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240230.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240230.php St...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240232.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240232.phpThe chemotherapy drugs required to push a common form of adult leukemia into remission may contribute to DNA damage that can lead to a relapse of the disease in some patients, findings of a new study suggest. The research, by a team of physicians and scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is published in the advance online edition of Nature...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240176.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240176.phpScientists at the University of Leicester have opened up a whole new approach to the therapeutic intervention for a family of anti-cancer drug targets, thanks to a completely new and unexpected finding...Cancer / Oncology Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240136.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240136.phpA new study from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, shows that MAL3-101, a recently developed inhibitor of the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), appears to have potent anti-tumor effects on multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer. Despite aggressive modes of treatments, myeloma ultimately remains incurable. The disease has a high incidence in the communities served by SUNY Downstate...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240085.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240085.php ONCOLOGY: KRAS provides maintenance for pancreatic cancer The outlook for individuals diagnosed with the most common form of pancreatic cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), is very poor; the average time of survival after diagnosis is less than 6 months. New therapeutic approaches are therefore much needed...Pancreatic Cancer Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239662.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239662.php A compound produced from fish oil that appears to target leukemia stem cells could lead to a cure for the disease, according to Penn State researchers...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239672.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239672.php Life is complicated enough, so you can forgive the pioneers of DNA biology for glossing over transcriptional elongation control by RNA polymerase II, the quick and seemingly bulletproof penultimate step in the process that copies the information encoded in our DNA into protein-making instructions carried by messenger RNA. In a new report appearing in the Dec...Genetics Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239619.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239619.php High-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDC-ASCT), for previously untreated patients with advanced follicular lymphoma (FL) does not improve overall survival compared with conventional-dose chemotherapy alone, according to an online study published December 21 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...Transplants / Organ Donations Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239352.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239352.phpScientists have uncovered a critical genetic mutation in some patients with myelodysplastic syndromes - a group of blood cancers that can progress to a fatal form of leukemia. The research team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis also found evidence that patients with the mutation are more likely to develop acute leukemia...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239658.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239658.php Researchers from the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, one of the nation's top 50 best hospitals for cancer, presented results from 31 major studies of blood-related cancers - leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma -- during the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, December 10-13, 2011 in San Diego...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239571.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239571.phpMillennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with its parent company Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) reported the presentation of results from a phase 2 trial evaluating MLN8237, an investigational inhibitor of Aurora A kinase, in patients with aggressive B-cell and T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239474.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239474.phpA study published online in Nature Genetics reveals that scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered a critical genetic mutation in some patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, which is are blood cancers that can progress to a fatal form of leukemia...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239475.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239475.phpMSD announced the results of their Phase III study of vorinostat at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH)...Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma