Chronic Leukemia

Chronic leukemia is a long term increase of abnormal white blood cells. It can be classed as myelogenous or lymphocytic leukemia. For more information see the Leukemia pages Add the Leukemia New...

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia CLL

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a disease in which mature lymphocytes become cancerous and gradually replace normal cells in lymph nodes. CLL mainly affects elderly males in North America and Europe...

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Acute Leukemia

Acute leukemia occurs when a hematopoietic stem cell undergoes malignant transformation into a primitive, undifferentiated cell with abnormal longevity. These lymphocytes (acute lymphocytic leukemia...

Acute Myelocytic Leukemia AML

Acute myelocytic leukemia is a life-threatening disease in which the neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil, and monocyte precursors become cancerous and rapidly replace normal cells in the bone marrow....

U.K. launches radiotherapy fund

The U.K. Department of Health launched the Cancer Radiotherapy Innovation Fund with L15 million ($24.1 million) to expand the use of a new radiotherapy technique for cancer in the U.K. According to th...

Government radiotherapy announcement is fantastic news for patients

David Cameron announced a new ‘radiotherapy innovation fund’ this week. He’s making £15million available to the NHS in England so that by April 2013, more cancer patients can benefit from advan...

Intensity modulated radiotherapy reduces side effects in patients with early breast cancer

(European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)) Intensity modulated radiotherapy gives better results than standard radiotherapy in patients with early breast cancer, according to results fro...

In Patients With Early Breast Cancer, Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Reduces Side Effects

Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) gives better results than standard radiotherapy in patients with early breast cancer, according to results from a randomised trial presented today (Sunday) to t...

[Health-care Development] Radiotherapy capacity in European countries: an analysis of the Directory of Radiotherapy Centres (DIRAC) database

Radiotherapy is used for cure or palliation in around half of patients with cancer. We analysed data on radiotherapy equipment in 33 European countries registered in the Directory of Radiotherapy Cent...

Study reveals gaps in availability of radiotherapy services across Europe

Most strikingly, the study finds that in several countries in western Europe there are too few radiotherapy machines to ensure that cancer patients in need of radiotherapy receive treatment. For insta...

Using chemo-radiotherapy without increasing toxicity

Dr Dirk Dr Ruysscher talks with ecancer at EMCTO 2013 in Lugano, Switzerland about chemotherapy with concurrent radiotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer. Unfortunately, only 40% of patients are abl...

ESTRO 2013: Intensity modulated radiotherapy reduces side effects in patients with early breast cancer

Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) gives better results than standard radiotherapy in patients with early breast cancer, according to results from a randomised trial presented to the 2nd Forum of...

Azacitidine Followed by Radiotherapy as Effective Treatment for Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia with Extramedullary Localization.

A deep-sequencing study of chronic myeloid leukemia patients in blast crisis (BC-CML) detects mutations in 76.9% of cases.

Molecular profiling of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia reveals diverse mutations in >80% of patients with TET2 and EZH2 being of high prognostic relevance.

Relative fitness of hematopoietic progenitors influences leukemia progression.

The t(4;9)(q11;q33) fuses CEP110 to KIT in a case of acute myeloid leukemia.