Treating childhood cancer worldwide
…area. Thanks to support from the American Society of Hematology, he came to DF/CHCC in December to observe hospital rounds and to attend the annual hematology meeting. In May he’s…
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After 80 Years, Genetic Causes of Diamond-Blackfan Anemia Come Into View
…mother. “The port did help.” Vijay Sankaran, MD, PhD, in the hematology program of the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, checks Jack’s vitals. They discuss another of Jack’s…
Pediatrics and Gene Therapy: A Conversation with David Williams
…into their cells to correct errors in their DNA. Williams, who is chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and director of Translational Research at Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as…
Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Marks 40 Years as Aplastic Anemia ‘Pioneer’
…away. She went to her primary care doctor, who referred her to the BWH Hematology Department. Blood tests there revealed the source of Keener’s symptoms: aplastic anemia and paroxysmal nocturnal…
What is a Benign Blood Disorder?
…Cells Benign blood disorders such as anemia and sickle cell disease are often treated at cancer centers because such institutions are home to experts in hematology, which is a branch…
Collaborating on a Cure for Pediatric Cancers
…Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, identified a set of critical dependency genes in MYCN-amplified neuroblastoma that are essential for cell state and survival in the tumor. “By collaborating, we can quickly move from…
The Latest Research and Treatment for Blood Cancers and Disorders
…of Hematology/Oncology and director of Clinical and Translational Research at Boston Children’s Hospital and associate chair of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber. “We’re increasingly understanding how cancer tones down the immune…
Brother’s Stem Cells Make Remission Possible for Pediatric Leukemia Patient
…part of the leukemia is often resistant to one protocol or the other,” explains Steven Margossian, MD, PhD, a senior physician of pediatric hematology and oncology at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer…
6 Common Myths About What Causes Cancer
…spread by massage,” says Ann LaCasce, MD, MMSc, a physician in the Adult Lymphoma Program at Dana-Farber and director of the Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare Fellowship Program in Hematology/Medical Oncology. So, What…
Drug Shows Promise as First Definitive Treatment for Rare Anemia
…Journal of Medicine on the safety and efficacy of mitapivat, an oral drug developed by Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass. Grace, who is the director of the hematology clinic…
Comedian Gets Last Laugh on Cancer
Joe Yannetty earns a living making people laugh, so when it came to thanking his caregivers at Dana-Farber/New Hampshire Oncology-Hematology (DF/NHOH) for the successful treatment of his throat cancer, candy…
From the Military to Improving the Future of Cancer Care
…Tufts University School of Medicine, securing a scholarship through the Air Force Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP). After post-graduate training in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hematology, McGregor began his…
“It Was Just Surreal”: Dana-Farber’s William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, Wins a Nobel Prize in Medicine
…(middle), with his son, Tripp, and Dana-Farber President and CEO Laurie H. Glimcher, MD. HMS Dean Daley, who works in the field of hematology, called Kaelin “the consummate physician-scientist, the…
50-Year-Old Mystery Solved—With Clues to Making More Red Blood Cells
…Board of Trustees of Boston Children’s Hospital, was senior author on the paper. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (DK06834813, HL032262-25) and the American Society of Hematology….
Anti-Microbial Drug Targets Key Driver of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
…American Journal of Hematology. First author is Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD, director of the CLL Center of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies at Dana-Farber. He says the drug, which…
What is Radioimmunotherapy?
…been shown to be superior to the targeted therapy, rituximab, according to Ann LaCasce, MD, MMSc, a medical oncologist specializing in lymphoma and director of the Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare Hematology-Medical Oncology…
Can Massages Spread Lymphoma?
…in Hematology/Medical Oncology. “We do not think of lymphoma as a disease that metastasizes – rather, it is often a systemic disease that travels through the lymphatics and blood and…
Study Exploring Relationship Between Precursor Conditions and Multiple Myeloma
…of Hematology. Bustoros and his colleagues are genetically analyzing bone marrow and blood samples from nearly two hundred people with SMM. For many of these individuals, two sets of samples…
Refractory Cancer: What It Is and How It Is Treated
…in Hematology/Medical Oncology. What are the treatment options for patients with refractory disease? When a patient’s disease is or becomes refractory, the next step may be to try another form…
New Drug Regimens Show Promise in Early and Late Myeloma
…three-drug RVd regimen. In a report to the American Society of Hematology in 2019 and updated in a full publication of Blood this year, investigators demonstrated that the addition of…