Medicare 5-year cancer bill tops $21.1 bln: study "There were about 10 million Americans living with cancer in 2003. The National Cancer Institute has...
Discovery offers shortcut to custom flu vaccines By admin Created May 1 2008 - 6:59am A team of researchers at Emory University and the Oklahoma Medical...
Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough Bad Debts Prompt Change in Billing; $45,000 to Come In By BARBARA MARTINEZ April 28, 2008; Page A1 LAKE JACKSON, Texas...
HEALTHY FUNDING AT M.D. ANDERSON M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is part of the University of Texas System. It was created by the Texas legislature in 1941 to...
My heart bleeds reading the two posts from today's digest. Chonette Taylor http://www.cllsupport.org.uk/ http://www.justgiving.com/cllsupport [Non-text...
Greetings, Just a reminder about the difficulty of knowing the true origin of an email ... it can appear to be from me or the American Cancer society etc, but...
coping from webmagic post on rituxan and statins: quote: He stated that he had not heard of any recent studies on this topic that involved human trials, but...
Rapid Resolution of Mycobacterium marinum Chronic Skin Infection during Lenalidomide Therapy for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. A Awais, CS Tam, D Kontoyiannis,...
New prognostic markers in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Carol Moreno and Emili Montserrat Blood Rev, April 28, 2008; . Institute of Hematology and Oncology,...
Acute renal failure secondary to chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a case report. SI Rifkin Medscape J Med, January 1, 2008; 10(3): 67. Division of Nephrology,...
Lymphoma Research FoundationReminder: LRF Ask the Dr - May 14, 2008 - Philadelphia, PA Lymphoma Research Foundation Philadelphia Chapter Presents: Ask the...
Forwarding Tony's comment on a second LRF event in WA: This is an all day Lymphoma Workshop. Besides Oliver Press, David Maloney will be presenting. Also,...
New Product Review: Iron Supplements -- Tests show some lack iron or are contaminated. Report covers 23 supplements. New Product Review: Iron Supplements Two...
Treanda® Included in NCCN Guidelines for CLL and NHL CancerConsultants.com - News 5/5/2008 The chemotherapy agent Treanda® (bendamustine) has been added to...
Etiquette-Based Medicine Michael W. Kahn, M.D. Patients ideally deserve to have a compassionate doctor, but might they be satisfied with one who is simply...
Blood, 15 May 2008, Vol. 111, No. 10, pp. 4916-4921 Trends in long-term survival of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia from the 1980s to the early 21st...
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 26, No 14 (May 10), 2008: pp. 2252-2257 DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.11.5212 MDM2 SNP309 Is Associated With Poor Outcome in B-Cell...
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 26, No 14 (May 10), 2008: pp. 5e-6 DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.16.7874 Karyotype Evolution on Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization...
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 26, No 14 (May 10), 2008: pp. 2244-2245 DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.15.7818 Comprehensive Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Study...
Blood, 15 May 2008, Vol. 111, No. 10, pp. 5130-5141. Association between the proliferative rate of neoplastic B cells, their maturation stage, and underlying...
Living in Remission Students survive cancer to continue education "That air of invincibility that young people have - the sense that they are bulletproof -...
Study and backgrounder. ~ Karl =A Phase I Study of WT1 Peptides to Induce Anti-Leukemia Immune Responses Following Autologous or Allogeneic Transplantation...
Greetings, * Protocols for Refractory lymphoma: http://www.lymphomation.org/treatment-refractory.htm (still needs testing and work, but improved, I hope, over...
New lymphoma study initiated of oncology drug: Novartis AG (Novartis) and XOMA have started a Phase 1/Phase 2 clinical study of HCD122 in lymphoma. HCD122 is a...
Greetings, One limitation of cord blood-derived stem cells is insufficient quanty of stem cells from this source. This clinical study applied a new technology...
My understanding of cord stem cells is that two cords are needed for each adult transplant, there is a lot of info in CLLtopics web site about this. regards ...
Blood First Edition Paper, prepublished online May 16, 2008; DOI 10.1182/blood-2007-12-127688. BCR-ligation induced by IgM stimulation results in gene...
Oblimersen for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. BD Cheson Ther Clin Risk Manag, October 1, 2007; 3(5): 855-70. Georgetown...
Trisomy 8 in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. O Pozdnyakova, D Stachurski, L Hutchinson, S Ramakrishnan, and PM Miron Cancer Genet Cytogenet, May 1, 2008;...
Thank you for your tireless efforts on this issue, Brenda!!! ~ Karl PS. Fixed the link to the ASCO article Hi Everyone! May 15: Senate HELP Committee...