Researchers find treatment options for patients whose blood cancer relapses after CAR-T

Mount Sinai and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) researchers have identified therapies that can help patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma who try an immunotherapy known as CAR-T only to find their cancer coming back afterwards. CAR-T, short for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, enlists immune cells called T cells to fight multiple myeloma by altering them in […]

Adults with blood cancers respond to booster, not initial dose of COVID-19 vaccine

People with hematologic malignancies—or blood cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma—have an impaired immune system due to their disease and its treatment, putting them at risk of severe COVID-19 infection and experiencing a reduced response to COVID-19 vaccination. In a recent study published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, less than half of patients with […]

Could umbilical cord stem cells cure blood cancer?

Stem cells have promised to be the catalyst for major strides in medical research for decades. While progress in some fields has been slower than initially hoped, scientists say advances in cell transplantation techniques are raising the prospect of curing patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). In a new paper published in Leukemia, researchers from Osaka University compared two strategies […]