Researchers have discovered and analyzed a rare but serious side effect of an innovative form of blood cancer therapy. The ...

An international study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine provides hope for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients with a ... CLL is a blood cancer that affects white blood ...

A patient with recurrent melanoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) presented a false positive genetic test for a BRAF mutation. The case report, published in the International Journal of ...

The choice of ibrutinib vs zanubrutinib in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) should be guided by clinical characteristics and comorbidities, according to results published in ...

In practice, though, bleeding patients certainly need red blood cells to get oxygen to their brains, but they also need platelets to help stop the bleeding, and plasma to help restore lost blood ...

This represents a challenging duty for physicians treating CLL patients in the day-to-day practice. What is clear is that any method of measuring fitness in CLL patients must be simple and easy to ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common leukemia in the Western world, primarily affecting patients aged > 60 years. Because of the lack of curative therapies and the increasing ...

A "groundbreaking" £1.65 million treatment has been approved for use on the NHS, offering patients with severe sickle cell disease some hope of a cure. It is believed around 1,700 people could be ...

Research found that ibrutinib reduces red blood cell aggregation in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), while ... the effect of anemia on RBC morphology and aggregation because ...

Regardless of the stage when a cancer is diagnosed, finding and sustaining hope is a vital part of a patient’s journey. For me, the hardest part of dealing with chronic lymphocytic leukemia is the ...

It mainly affects people from Black African and Black Caribbean backgrounds. In sickle cell disease, a gene mutation causes red blood cells to become irreversibly sickle shaped, which can lead to ...