Tag: Blood Cancer

New York: A “super drug” that helps slow down the progression of blood cancer in children could soon become a reality, say researchers. Patients with leukemia have a very low percentage of red blood cells, making them anemic, and have approximately 80 times more white blood cells than people without cancer. However, the survival rate […]

Administering convalescent plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients can dramatically improve the likelihood of survival among blood cancer patients hospitalized with the deadly virus, according to a study.

New York: Your canine friend can use its highly evolved sense of smell to pick out blood samples from people with cancer with almost 97 per cent accuracy, a finding that can lead to new low-cost and non-invasive screening approaches for the disease, finds a study. Dogs have smell receptors 10,000 times more accurate than […]

London: Artificial Intelligence can help detect one of the most common forms of blood cancer – acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) – with high reliability, new research has found. Their approach, based on the analysis of the gene activity of cells found in the blood, could support conventional diagnostics and possibly accelerate the beginning of therapy, […]

Tokyo: Chemotherapy combined with the drug “rituximab” coupled with the treatment for secondary Central Nervous System (CNS) problem has shown promising results for patients suffering from a rare subtype of Lymphoma, also known as blood cancer, said a study. Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer that develops from lymphocytes (a type of white blood […]