Displaying items by tag: division of hematology and oncology
UAB researchers have determined that recipients are likely to experience cognitive impairment in years following treatment.
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Some 70 percent of patients needing a marrow transplant do not have a fully matched donor in their family.
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Of the 15 million people living with cancer in the United States in 2016, 62 percent were 65 years or older.
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A UAB researcher has received a 2017 Susan G. Komen grant to investigate combination drug therapies for HER2-positive breast cancer.
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Pediatric neurosurgeons, oncologists and molecular imaging physicians continue to work toward better diagnoses, treatments and cures for childhood cancer.
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Investigators will have a state-of-the-art space to conduct safe and age-appropriate clinical research to advance the science and treatment of childhood diseases.
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Research from UAB suggests that nearly half of children with the most common type of leukemia or their parents say they took more medications than they actually did.
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A key Leukemia & Lymphoma Society grant will provide an opportunity for a UAB researcher to develop a new immunotherapy treatment approach for the leukemia most prevalent in Western countries.
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An Alabama woman asked her primary care physician one question that may have saved her life — is it time for me to have a mammogram?
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A fight with breast cancer has brought Odenville Elementary teachers Meg Lowry and Michelle Simmons closer as they learn the disease is “not your grandmother’s story anymore.”
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Almost 100 people have signed up for the annual Komen Race for the Cure in honor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s Yvonne Akins, a mentor and friend to many at UAB for 42 years.
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A workshop is set to provide information and resources for MDS patients and families June 25.
Prostate cancer physicians look to provide personalized medicine to prostate cancer patients with a new medical device.
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Part of the challenge is to do a better job of helping patients make their own, well-informed choices.
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Measure of Mpl gene expression reveals a heterogonous population of leukemia stem cells: one group leukemic and the other group non-leukemic.
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The Nov. 10 workshop will provide information and resources for lung cancer patients.
The UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center ranked as one of 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with great oncology programs in America.
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A drug derived from female hormones that may help soldiers survive major blood loss on a battlefield will undergo first human testing at UAB.
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Wrong shipment of mice led to estrogen breakthrough in trauma survival.
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