ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A Roanoke-based nonprofit founded in memory of a young woman diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia is marking seven years of service to young adults facing cancer treatment.

New ASH guidelines outline optimal management for a subgroup of patients with leukemia that historically has been challenging to treat.Two papers published simultaneously in Blood Advances address ...

Cara Portella is representing her school in a national campaign to raise money and awareness to cure blood cancers. This was ...

Hyperactive signaling pathways of some aggressive blood cancer cells can be tamped down by a previously unrecognized protein complex, ensuring the cancer's survival. If one component of the complex is ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a particularly aggressive form of blood cancer that usually progresses rapidly if swift and intensive treatment is not applied. Although the disease can often be ...

September is Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month. An estimated 1,629,474 people in the United States (US) are living with or in remission from leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes ...

A Falls Church City family’s battle with leukemia and a daughter’s determination to help others facing the disease will be at ...

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short ...

A new CRISPR-based tool that is directly used on patients' cancer cells can identify genes and regulatory elements driving ...

Cancer cells are metabolic opportunists, bending every pathway to fuel unchecked growth. Now UCLA scientists show that a single protein—Insulin-like Growth Factor 2 mRNA-Binding Protein 3 ...

Can you define the characteristics of the four stages of cancer? I understand that stage I is generally when cancer is caught early and can be treated with a good success rate, while stage IV is ...