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Choosing a Treatment Center
Selecting a cancer treatment center may depend on several factors including your specific diagnosis, location and insurance coverage. You will want to…
Possible Treatment Effects
Possible effects on males Loss of sperm production can be temporary or permanent. If sperm production recovers, this can take one to five year…
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment
It's important that your doctor is experienced in treating patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or has access to an ALL blood cancer speci…
Blood Cancer
Myelofibrosis (MF) treatment
There is no drug therapy that cures MF. The only potential cure is allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Controlling symptoms is the primary goal of t…
Blood Cancer
Choosing a Blood Cancer Specialist or a Treatment Center
Taking an active role in making decisions regarding your treatment can have a positive effect on your health and quality of life. One of your first ch…
Life After Diagnosis And Treatment
Your treatment is over and now begins a new step in your journey: life after cancer. No one forgets that he, she or a loved one once had cancer. After…
Ushering In a New Era of Pediatric Blood Cancer Treatment and Care
We caught up with Gwen Nichols, MD, Chief Medical Officer at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), to share the progress we’re making to bring cures …
Essential thrombocythemia (ET) treatment
On average, individuals with essential thrombocythemia (ET) have a normal life expectancy if they are properly monitored and treated. It's important t…
Blood Cancer
Understanding Different Types of Treatments
Treatment options vary for the different types of blood cancer. Your choices depend on your specific diagnosis, age, cytogenetic analysis (an examinat…
Treatment Outcomes
In some people with PV, the disease remains stable for many years. In many people, life expectancy is the same as it would be if they did not have PV.…
Treatment Outcomes
AML is a difficult disease to cure. Just a few decades ago, almost no adults with AML could be cured. But today, advances in understanding of the gene…
How to Find a Treatment Center
A number of resources are available to help you find a treatment center. Your primary care doctor may be able to provide a referral or you can use doc…
Blood Cancer and Treatment Options
Treatment Options After your child is diagnosed with a blood cancer, you will work with members of the healthcare team to determine the best treatm…
Caregiving during treatment
Preparing the homeDuring and after cancer treatment, your loved one may find life at home becomes increasingly challenging. If your loved one is expe…
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Managing blood cancer treatment side effects
Work closely with your doctor and cancer care team to prepare yourself with information about what to expect and how to cope with side effects. For so…
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Types of blood cancer treatment for young adults
Chemotherapy, stem cell transplantation, and radiation therapy are common blood cancer treatments, but disease type and risk factors also determine th…
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FDA Approves Novel Car T-Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma
Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell-therapy is on a roll. Today marks the seventh approval of CAR T therapy since the first approval in 2017.
Choosing a blood cancer specialist or treatment center
Taking an active role in making decisions about your treatment can positively affect your health and quality of life. One of your first choices as an …
Support Resources
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) treatment
Every patient’s situation should be evaluated individually by a hematologist-oncologist who specializes in treating MDS and who will discuss the disea…
Blood Cancer
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Accelerating new treatments for pediatric patients
When it comes to childhood cancers, regulators often approach kids as if they’re tiny adults. But the biology of pediatric cancers is typically distin…
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CAR T-Cell Therapy Approved for Initial Treatment of Relapsed Large B-Cell Lymphoma
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week approved axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel, Yescarta®) for patients with large B-cell lymphoma (L…
Understanding blood cancers and treatment options
Leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are types of cancer that can affect the bone mar…
Polycythemia vera (PV) treatment
PV is a chronic disease. Treatment decisions are based on a person's risk for clotting complications.
Blood Cancer
Long-Term And Late Effects Of Treatment For Childhood Cancer Survivors
Treatment for childhood blood cancer may consist of chemotherapy and other drug therapies and may also include radiation therapy or allogeneic stem ce…
General Treatment, Support and Caregiving
These education programs cover topics related to general treatment and support. Click on the links below to access webcasts, audio replays, transcript…