Acute Myeloid Leukemia

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's "First Connection" program connects volunteers with newly diagnosed patients and caregivers to help them manage the many aspects of a cancer diagnosis.

Flipping cancer's "off" switch.

News updates from the American Society of Hematology and the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Velcade is now available for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients and new drugs emerge as potential treatment to a serious side effect.

Discussion of new drugs for CLL and to relieve constipation.

Recent drug approvals yield a new chemotherapy agent, a first for liver cancer, a safer prevention method, and good news for a drug-resistant cancer.

Satraplatin's approval review deadline gets pushed back by the FDA and a large clinical trial shows Vidaza extends survival in patients with MDS.

CML survivor Erin Zammett Ruddy wants a baby. The trade-off may be her health.

Drugs for multiple myeloma and CML reach patients.

Survivors guided through territory of long-term and late effects.

Cancer survivors deal with fear.

In addition to treatment-related risks, some survivors discover they have a genetic syndrome that may lead to a second cancer.

Updates from the 2006 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.