Imagine a tiny superhero inside every cell of your body whose job is to stop damaged cells before they turn dangerous. That ...

Hematologist-oncologists are doctors who specialize in treating blood cancers such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). ALL is a rare, rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. The ...

September is Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month. An estimated 1,629,474 people in the United States (US) are living with or in remission from leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes ...

New ASH guidelines outline optimal management for a subgroup of patients with leukemia that historically has been challenging to treat.Two papers published simultaneously in Blood Advances address ...

After repeated unsuccessful cancer treatments, even the strongest patients can lose hope. But former University of Virginia ...

Semi-structured interviews with children with ALL revealed a desire for clinicians to tell them about their disease directly in age-appropriate language.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The most common type of childhood cancer is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a blood and bone marrow cancer that creates immature white blood cells that ...

SAN DIEGO — One of the toughest subtypes of acute leukemia involves a genetic alteration in the KMT2A gene. Many cancers with this genetic alteration end up relapsing or don’t respond to treatment, ...

Longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding was associated with a reduced risk of childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL), according to results from a Danish population-based ...