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The decrease is largely due to improved lung cancer treatment, but the impact of COVID-19 is not yet known.

Those with blood cancers are nine times more likely to be hospitalized or die from the flu.

Starting palliative interventions at the onset of hospitalization for chemotherapy greatly improves quality of life.

Customized treatments demonstrate good response rates for mantle cell lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Trying to mimic the “Berlin Patient” cure, researchers edited the CCR5 gene in the immune stem cells of a man with leukemia and HIV.

Imbruvica plus Gazyva is the first chemotherapy-free regimen for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The professional wrestler has lived with the cancer since age 22.

Timothy Brown may have company after a man’s virus went into remission following an HIV-resistant stem cell transplant to treat his cancer.

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Researchers believe their greater understanding of leukemia stem cells will lead to more treatment options for people with the blood cancer.

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Imbruvica-based treatment may also work better than intensive chemotherapy for younger patients.

The new therapies include immune checkpoint inhibitors; therapeutic vaccines; CAR T-cell therapies; and “conjugate” drugs.

The study focused on children with a form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and the findings could also be relevant to other blood disorders.

Women with the chronic condition are 6 percent more likely than men to develop cancer.