News on haematological malignancies
New genetic findings help explain inherited predisposition to myeloma
Researchers have identified eight new genetic variations in the human genome that could be linked…
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Long Read: How the mafia is causing cancer
By Ian Birrell – Mosaic Science . When doctors in rural Italy began to see a…
Aggressiveness of acute myeloid leukaemia elucidated
Antoine Peters and colleagues at the Basel University Children’s Hospital (UKBB) have discovered why acute…
New insight into most common type of infant leukaemia
Peter Mac researchers have made an important advance in our understanding of the most common…
Landmark study shows Acute Myeloid Leukaemia is at least 11 different diseases
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their international collaborators have shown that Acute…
Learning the language of cells will help scientists beat cancer
By Mohan Harihar, University of Leicester. Chemotherapy is a blunt weapon. It kills cancer cells…
How Australians Die: cause #2 – cancers
By Terry Slevin, Cancer Council Australia and Andrew Redfern, University of Western Australia. Described as…
93 percent of advanced leukaemia patients in remission after immunotherapy
‘Extraordinary’ but short-term results from early-stage trial of engineered immune cells Twenty-seven of 29 patients…
Study links residential radon exposure to hematologic cancers in women
A new report finds a statistically-significant, positive association between high levels of residential radon and…
Chronic inflammation leads to imbalanced blood system and potentially cancer risk
A study published in the journal Nature Cell Biology shows that chronic exposure to an inflammatory “emergency”…