Primary Mediastinal Large B-Cel ...
In recent years, an overlap in biologic and clinical features has been identified between classic Hodgkin lymphoma (CHL) and primary mediastinal lar ...
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia: M ...
Molecular monitoring is a key component of the management of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. The current recommendation is that molecular mo ...
The Unique Characteristics and ...
In recent decades, the prognosis of Hodgkin lymphoma has been substantially improved, but these successes have been restricted to younger patients a ...
Therapeutic Modalities for Pati ...
The treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) involves a complex algorithm that depends on multiple factors, including symptoms, performance stat ...
In Search of CML Stem Cells’ De ...
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a clonal myeloproliferative disorder that is characterized by the presence of a fusion oncogene, BCR-ABL, which en ...
The Search for Better Prognosti ...
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a group of heterogeneous bone marrow disorders characterized by a failure of hematopoiesis and an increased prop ...
The Role of Autologous Transpla ...
Between 80% and 90% of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients can be cured with up-to-date combinedmodality treatments, but patients with disease refractory ...
Predicting the Response of CML ...
As of 2011, the choice of tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for the patient with newly diagnosed chronic-phase chronic myelogenous leukemia (CP-CML) ...
Can Low-Risk, Early-Stage Patie ...
Advances in the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma since about 1970 have led to a remarkable improvement in the long-term outcomes of what was once cons ...
Future Therapies for the Myelop ...
Ever since their description as “myeloproliferative syndromes” by William Dameshek in 1951, the myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) have been manage ...
New Drugs for Chronic Myelogeno ...
The introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) has changed the landscape of therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Once considered a ...
Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Mu ...
Treatment of myeloma has changed significantly in the past decade as a result of better understanding of disease biology, more effective treatments, ...
Role of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibit ...
The Philadelphia chromosome is the most common cytogenetic abnormality found in adult patients diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The resu ...
Special Issues in Myeloprolifer ...
Special issues in myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) comprise clinical conditions with high relevance for the duration and quality of the patient’s ...
Treatment of Newly Diagnosed My ...
Melphalan plus prednisone (MP) has long been considered the gold-standard treatment for elderly patients with newly diagnosed myeloma, and it still ...
Late Effects of Childhood Leuke ...
As survival rates for children treated for childhood cancers become significantly better, the focus is increasingly on determining the late effects ...
What is the Best Frontline Ther ...
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a lymphoproliferative disease with significant variation in disease progression, response to therapy, and surv ...
New Immunomodulatory Drugs in M ...
Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable malignancy of plasma cells. The introduction of thalidomide was a milestone in the treatment of MM. Thalidomid ...
The Role of Transplantation in ...
Rituximab has improved the prognosis of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, but a high proportion of patients with advanced disease will re ...
Updates in Cytogenetics and Mol ...
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are clonal hematologic neoplasms that can result in cytopenias and increase the risk of leukemic transformation. The ...
Burkitt Lymphoma and Atypical B ...
Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a mature B-cell non- Hodgkin lymphoma with an aggressive clinical course. Since the advent of short, intensive, multiagent ...
The Relevance of Iron Overload ...
Accumulation of excessive amounts of iron in vulnerable organs and tissues, together with elevated plasma and intracellular concentrations of reacti ...
The Emerging Role of Histone De ...
T-cell lymphomas are an uncommon and heterogeneous group of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Historically, therapies for these diseases have been borrowed fro ...
Management of Lower-Risk Myelod ...
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) represent a spectrum of bone marrow failure with variable outcome. Patients with “lower-risk” disease have an expect ...
IL28B: Implications for Therapy
Within the last 2 years, a number of Genome- Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have shown that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the interleuk ...