Lymphoma

How a total stranger from Tennessee turned out to be my brother.

Ryan Hamner has battled Hodgkin lymphoma four times since the age of 5, and has had some interesting hobbies since - from gardening to metal detecting. But for Hamner, two things stuck: music and creativity.

The time has finally come when researchers have found a way to harness the immune system and use it to fight blood cancers.

Chemotherapy can impact your veins and bruise egos.

A nasty stomach virus might have saved this survivor from colon cancer.

Never in their wildest dreams dreams would immunologists from the last generation have imagined chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy coming to light. The very notion of genetically engineering a T cell to recognize a tumor antigen would have been viewed almost as a pipe dream.

Why childhood cancer survivors should never skip a beat on tracking their heart health.

Cognitive dysfunction among geriatric patients with blood cancers – such as multiple myeloma, leukemia and lymphoma – is not only prevalent, but may also impact long-term survival.

Is it possible to grieve for someone who is still alive?

Many patients with lymphoma need treatment with both chemotherapy and radiation, but these treatments may be accompanied by significant late-term effects, according to a new study presented during the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Survivorship Symposium.

Treatment of HIV has drastically improved since the 1980s, but many of these individuals are still facing barriers to proper cancer care.

Experts examine the use of Adcetris for patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.

Physical therapy can boost quality of life for patients with cancer, but it isn’t always prescribed.

Hodgkin lymphoma survivors may be more likely to develop subsequent estrogen receptor (ER)-negative or -positive breast cancer compared to the general population.

When her sister had hit another roadblock in her treatment, Kim found something else – a remarkable young man who changed her perception of caregiving.

While adolescent and young adult survivors of cancer face an increased risk of long-term complications, many people in this group end up "lost to follow-up," according to recent research.

While causes for pneumonia were varied – including bacteria (14 percent), virus (22 percent) and unspecified (64 percent) – the majority of children did not have immune deficiencies recorded at the time of their pneumonia diagnosis.

Health care practitioners were surprised when they saw 10 cases of a very rare cancer in the New York City area. As it turned out, most of the patients weren't originally from New York.

No matter how expensive treatment was, we didn’t want to put a price tag on my sister’s life.

A sick stomach, to high-fever, chest pains and heart infection is just a learning experience for some doctors.

Radhakrishnan Ramchandren, M.D., from the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine, discusses the role of clinical trials in developing news drugs and standards of care for patients with lymphoma.

Knowing that my sister gained remission gives me an immense bias, but ask the question, “Good or bad?” now and my answer may just be, “hard to tell.”

The Food and Drug Administration granted a priority review to a supplemental biologics license application for Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel) to be used to treat adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who either relapse or are not eligible for an autologous stem cell transplant.

Kevin explains the delights of being both a cancer patient and an adult.