Combo treatment offers hope for people with AML
Study shows promising results in the treatment of resistant or relapsed acute myeloid leukemia.
Blood Cancer
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Healthing.ca partners with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada
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Blood cancer researchers unite to overcome challenges of COVID-19
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Cancer survivors feel pressured to ‘put on a happy face and get on with life’
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Childhood cancer diagnosis can be tough on families
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Blood cancer diagnosis couldn’t keep Canada’s Olympic athlete off his board
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Leukemia: types, symptoms and treatment
Leukemia is a broad term for multiple different forms of blood cancer. It primarily affects the stem cells that grow into blood cells.
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Lymphoma: What to know about the blood cancer
Lymphoma is the most common type of blood cancer, primarily affecting the white blood cells called lymphocytes.
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Lack of diversity hurts urgent search for stem cell donors
Laura Laycock Collard is part Lebanese, which fits the description of less than two per cent of Canadians in the registry.
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AML maintenance treatment shows great promise
The cancer drug azacitidine, taken in pill form, helped improve relapse-free survival and overall survival.
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New stem cell transplant unit came too late for Laura Hillier
New stem cell wing in Hamilton to increase accessibility to care for people who need life-saving transplants.
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They told me I had cancer. It wasn't a 'fight' I signed up for
September 22 is World CML Day. It reminds me that if I had been diagnosed 25 years earlier, I would probably be dead.
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