SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today highlighted five studies in a press briefing from among more than 4,500 abstracts publicly posted online at abstract.asco.org in advance of ASCO's 47th Annual Meeting.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pharmacyclics, Inc.

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.

Positron emission tomography (PET) and a molecular imaging agent that captures the proliferation of cancer cells could prove to be a valuable method yet for imaging a form of Non-Hodgkin’s disease called mantle cell lymphoma, a relatively rare and devastating blood cancer.