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Healing Happens Around The Dinner Table

Too many parents lose their children to blood cancer each year. It’s a devastating experience for families blindsided by the harsh realities of cancer…

What causes acute myeloid leukemia?

Table of contents: What causes acute myeloid leukemia?What is AML?Role of bone marrow and white blood cellsHow leukemia interferes with blood cell cou…

Student trailblazers, part 1: Enterprising teen engineers new way to deliver cancer treatment

One of my favorite things about being Chief Medical Officer of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is getting to meet so many bright young people co…

MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS LLS PRESIDENT & CEO

Dear Friends, I’m just over days into my new role as President & CEO of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and I want to take this moment to…

The Immune System and Blood Cancer: 4 Things You Need to Know

Immunotherapy uses the power of the immune system to treat blood cancer. Today it is a standard treatment that has a profound effect in some blood can…

How to start accepting help

Keep the door openDon’t say no off the bat. When you’re asked how you are, or someone asks how they can help, you might find yourself reflexively answ…

Honoring My Daughter’s Legacy By Continuing Her Fight

Amanda Monteiro is a leukemia mom, volunteer, and Children's Initiative Ambassador for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), advocate for pediatric c…

Leukemia vs. lymphoma: What you need to know

Table of contentsLeukemia vs. Lymphoma: What You Need to KnowWhat Is Leukemia?Organs Affected by LeukemiaWhat Is Lymphoma?Organs Affected by LymphomaD…

Exercise for blood cancer patients

Table of contents:​​Exercise for Blood Cancer Patients​Why is being physically active important for blood cancer patients?​Goals of an exercise progra…

Blood Cancer Survivors Find Special Meaning and Connection as Employee Champions of LLS Light the Night Events

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is proud of our continuing partnership with Gilead and Kite Oncology as the National Presenting Sponsor of Celeb…

Meet The Researcher: Dr. Rayne Rouce

3 Insights from a Clinical Trial Patient

The road to finding new and better cancer treatments often includes an important step: clinical trials. For patients with diseases, these studies can…

Signs that myelofibrosis is progressing: What to watch for

Table of contents:Signs that myelofibrosis is progressingRecognizing early and advancing signs of myelofibrosisWhat your doctor looks forTreatment imp…

A race for blood cancer research

Caring about something makes you want to take action. To get moving. And when you care about people with blood cancer, you might feel that pull more u…

Champions in myeloma research, Part 2: A conversation with Suzanne Lentzsch, M.D., Ph.D.

To commemorate both Myeloma Awareness Month and Women’s History Month during March, I’ve been talking with women scientists who are driving discovery…

Pathways to Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Continuing Medical Education Rounds

Event Details Thursday, November , :45pm – :30pm ET Click Here to Register * Required Live Event Interactive continuing medical education act…

More than a campaign: centering people with blood cancer

This fall, for the first time in more than a decade, we launched a national advertising campaign not just to share our new name—Blood Cancer United—bu…

Feeling uncertain? Start here.

If you need information or support: There’s a lot to take in with a blood cancer diagnosis: medical realities, treatment options, and the sheer emotio…

Lymphoma diagnosis, survival rate by age, prognosis, and treatment

Table of contents:What is Hodgkin lymphoma? Organs affected by Hodgkin lymphomaHodgkin lymphoma symptoms and early signsWhat is lymphoma?Organs affec…

Bringing Together the CAR T-Cell Therapy Community

It’s easy to think of scientific researchers as existing in a vacuum: spending long days and evenings in a laboratory, making observations that most p…

FDA Approves Novel Car T-Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T is on a roll. Today marks the seventh approval of CAR T therapy since the first approval in . While all prior appro…

DIY: Your movement to cure blood cancer

Every dollar makes a difference. With Blood Cancer United DIY, you can turn any activity or event into a way to support the organiz…

New Drug Approval Moves Us Closer To Long-Term Control of Multiple Myeloma

Ciltacabtagene Autoleucel () is the second approved to treat multiple myeloma Just one year after the fir…

Two Survivors Moving Mountains for Blood Cancer Care

A blood cancer diagnosis can feel like a mountain to climb—testing your stamina and willpower, challenging your body the longer you go on. But for sur…

A guide to Blood Cancer Awareness Month

Hope. When times are tough, it’s often hope people look for. We want things to work out, to see reasons to keep going. You hear “hope” a lot in conjun…