Lymphoma News
November 20, 2024
Top Headlines
Nov. 12, 2024 — These miniature immune system models -- known as human immune organoids -- mimic the real-life environment where immune cells learn to recognize and attack harmful invaders and respond to vaccines. Not only are these organoids powerful new tools for ...
July 22, 2024 — The effectiveness of CAR T cell therapy against a variety of cancers, including solid tumors, could be boosted greatly by using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to knock out the gene for CD5, a protein found on the surface of T cells, according to a ...
July 10, 2024 — CAR-T cell therapy helps some with intractable lymphoma, but those who relapse have few options. Modifying the therapy's molecular target improved ...
June 20, 2024 — Research scientists found that a 'one-two punch' of combining the immunosuppressive drug ruxolitinib with existing checkpoint inhibitor therapies may be a more effective way to fight some cancers, including Hodgkin lymphoma. Checkpoint inhibitor ...
Latest Headlines
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Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers discovered they could boost survival to 92% for patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma by adding the immunotherapy nivolumab to a current treatment regimen. This is compared to 83% ...
June 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a non-chemotherapy treatment regimen that is achieving full remissions for some people with aggressive B-cell lymphoma ...
June 18, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism whose genetic disruption boosts the growth of the most common type of ...
June 12, 2024 — A new detailed analysis of a patient's second cancer after receiving CAR-T therapy for the initial cancer provides rare but important insights ...
May 24, 2024 — A new study from Sweden suggests that tattoos could be a risk factor for cancer in the lymphatic system, or lymphoma. Now, the researchers underline the need for more research on the ...
June 12, 2024 — CAR-T cell therapies are transforming the treatment of previously incurable blood cancers, but a large proportion of patients still responds only poorly or not at all to them, calling for new ...
May 23, 2024 — The Epstein-Barr virus can cause a spectrum of diseases, including a range of cancers. Emerging data now show that inhibition of a specific metabolic pathway in infected cells can diminish latent ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — A recently completed study indicates that circulatory protein levels can provide important information for increasingly accurate diagnoses and personalised care in patients with aggressive B-cell ...
Mar. 12, 2024 — Studies of interactions between two lab-generated monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and an essential Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) protein have uncovered targets that could be exploited in designing treatments ...
Mar. 1, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a key mechanism used by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), also known as human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8), to induce cancer. The research points to effective new ...
Earlier Headlines
Feb. 7, 2024 — Scientists may have found a way around the limitations of engineered T cells by borrowing a few tricks from cancer itself. By studying mutations in malignant T cells that cause lymphoma, they zeroed ...
Jan. 26, 2024 — Researchers describe how specific gene activity could potentially enhance immune cell production. The researchers wanted to understand the mechanism of why some hematopoietic stem cells produce more ...
Jan. 17, 2024 — Axi-cel CAR T targets the CD19 molecule on large B-cell lymphoma cells. The ZUMA-7 trial demonstrated that axi-cel reduced the risk of disease progression, the need for new therapy, or death by 60% ...
Jan. 13, 2024 — Researchers have identified a novel pharmaceutical compound that successfully kills leukemia and lymphoma cancer cells, potentially paving the way for new forms of ...
Dec. 11, 2023 — Circulating tumor DNA predicts recurrence and splits disease into two subgroups of Hodgkin lymphoma. New drug targets or changes in treatments may reduce ...
Dec. 10, 2023 — Early results from a Phase I clinical trial of AT101, a new CAR T cell therapy that uses a distinct binding mechanism to target CD19, show a 100 percent complete response (CR) rate at the higher dose ...
Nov. 16, 2023 — Immunotherapies that target the CD20 antigen have revolutionized how patients with a variety of blood cancers and hematologic disorders have been treated. However, many patients develop resistance to ...
Nov. 6, 2023 — Men who are overweight or obese at age 18 have a higher risk of 17 different cancers later in life. This has been shown in a study at the University of Gothenburg. The research also describes how the ...
Mar. 17, 2023 — A new substance has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin lymphoma. This is good news for the patients, but also for the global threat of antibiotics ...
Feb. 13, 2023 — The most comprehensive study to date of the blood cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, has provided fascinating insights into what tumour cells must do to survive. Researchers found that cancer cells use ...
Jan. 24, 2023 — The value of chemotherapy delivery at specific times of the day to optimize efficacy and minimize adverse effects in hematologic malignancy remains unknown. An interdisciplinary research team ...
Jan. 9, 2023 — A research team has discovered a highly potent biomarker for clinical response to CAR-T cell therapy, describing the prerequisites for optimal use of this novel therapy for lymphoma treatment. The ...
Dec. 22, 2022 — Researchers have demonstrated that people suffering from blood cancer have a good immune response to COVID-19 vaccinations. Vaccination protects patients with B-cell lymphoma and multiple myeloma ...
Nov. 22, 2022 — A form of blood cancer known as mantle cell lymphoma is critically dependent on a protein that coordinates gene expression, such that blocking its activity with an experimental drug dramatically ...
Oct. 27, 2022 — A panel of investigational monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting different sites of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) blocked infection when tested in human cells in a laboratory setting. Moreover, one ...
Sep. 8, 2022 — Scientists have completed the largest study of families affected by Hodgkin lymphoma and identified novel variants linked to cancer ...
Aug. 24, 2022 — An engineer has found a way to determine which patients are likely to respond to #CAR T-cell therapy, saving precious time in treating #lymphoma, which is most responsive to this form of ...
July 14, 2022 — A study has found that the addition of brentuximab vedotin to standard chemotherapy treatment improves overall survival in patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma, when compared to the current standard of ...
June 28, 2022 — There is considerable variation in the management of mantle cell lymphoma across different clinical settings, and some strategies do not always conform with what might be expected, according to a ...
June 14, 2022 — A new study shows that treatment with an immunity boosting protein called interleukin 7 (IL-7) after an infusion of genetically modified T cells causes the cancer-fighting CAR-T cells to grow in ...