Latest Hematological malignancy Stories

Doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that a new drug makes chemotherapy more effective in treating acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells. Instead of attacking these cells directly, the drug helps drive them out of the bone marrow and into the bloodstream, where they are more vulnerable to chemotherapy. “We’re usually very good at clearing these leukemia cells from the blood,” says Geoffrey L. Uy, MD, assistant professor of...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training(®) (TNT) and Spartan Race(TM) obstacle races are teaming up to bring participants a challenging and unforgettable experience and a great training program to help them prepare for their event. Spartan Race, the leader in obstacle racing, offers participants the opportunity to test their resilience, strength and stamina with a choice of three different course levels. And now...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- From the organization that has trained more than half a million people to achieve their personal fitness goals, comes Team4Cures, a free iPhone app to help users track their athletic progress. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110215/NY48642LOGO ) The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), which created Team In Training (TNT), the world's biggest and most successful endurance sports training charity program, has created the...

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Garden City Group, Inc. (GCG), one of the largest claims administration firms in the country, has contributed $49,000 to its charity of the year, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society®. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is, according to its website, the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and services to support and improve the quality of life of...

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Students across the nation are once again collecting spare change to support the 18th-annual Pasta for Pennies program presented by Olive Garden and benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) School & Youth campaign. Students donated a record $8.4 million during last year's Pasta for Pennies, to bring the total amount collected since the program's inception to more than $61 million. (Logo:...

University 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. Wilmot Cancer Center laboratory of corresponding author Laura M. Calvi, M.D., is featured in the journal Blood. It...

Melbourne researchers have discovered that acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer with poor prognosis, may be susceptible to medications that target a protein called Mcl-1. The research team at the institute was led by Dr Stefan Glaser, from the institute’s Cancer and Haematology division, and Professor Andreas Strasser, joint head of the institute’s Molecular Genetics of Cancer division, working in collaboration with scientists from the Australian Centre for Blood...

Once a leukemia patient, now she runs NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Georgia Cleland, now 28, is the little girl who helped spawn an entire running for charity movement - the largest of its kind in the world. A leukemia patient at age 2, when the chance of survival was just 55 percent, today she ran her first half-marathon with Team In Training, the organization her father founded in her honor 23 years ago. She ran the Walt Disney World half-marathon. Thanks...

BURLINGTON, N.J., Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Burlington Coat Factory, a national off price retailer, just completed another record-breaking year in its decade-long partnership with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) through its Light The Night® Walk campaign. Burlington, LLS's top fundraising Light The Night Walk corporate partner, raised close to $3 million this year to support LLS's lifesaving cancer research programs and patient education and support services. Most...

Research includes phase III bone marrow transplant study presented as first abstract in the scientific plenary session 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. Research...