Kristie L. Kahl

Kristie L. Kahl

Kristie L. Kahl is vice president of content at MJH Life Sciences, overseeing CURE®, CancerNetwork®, the journal ONCOLOGY, Targeted Oncology, and Urology Times®. She has been with the company since November 2017.

She is a graduate of Rider University, where she acquired a Bachelors of Art in journalism, as well as a graduate of Temple University, where she received her Masters of Science in Sports Management.

Follow Kristie on Twitter at @KristieLKahl, or email her at [email protected].

Articles by Kristie L. Kahl

Laurie was no stranger to cancer after she faced a bout with stage 3b non-Hodgkin lymphoma back in 1977, but her second diagnosis of breast cancer left her with a very tough decision on how she wanted to move forward with treatment.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma, according to the agency.

Frontline use of Imbruvica (ibrutinib) in combination with Gazyva (obinutuzumab) significantly reduced the risk for disease progression or death among patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), especially in those with high-risk disease.

This week, we spoke with three sisters with a long family history of the BRCA gene mutation – one that dates back to 1860 in Poland.