Leukemia

For Blood Cancer Awareness Month, here’s a round-up of the latest news and updates in this disease space.

Certain oncology treatments can raise the risk of developing yet another cancer.

In what was once an incurable cancer — chronic lymphocytic leukemia — scientists are seeing remissions that could last for decades.

When a Guatemalan family faced cancer, they turned to the country where they had dual citizenship — and to each other — for help.

"If cancer wants to come after me again, it better be ready to fight!"

What are the odds that my friend, Michael, would be afflicted with the same rare disease that I had?

From celebrity news to a new partnership aimed to help patients and their caregivers, here’s what is making headlines in the cancer space this week.

Some of the greatest doctors in the world were responsible for my survival and recovery from acute myeloid leukemia…but the Three Stooges, W.C Fields, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and The Marx Brothers played a major role as well.

Following its announcement of covering chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy nationwide, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has now made this highly-priced, but life-saving, treatment available to many who would not otherwise have access to it at their cancer centers.

Here are the top 5 CURE stories for July 2019.