Clinical trial puts rare BPDCN leukemia in remission with diphtheria-based targeted therapy drug
When a small, painless lump began developing on Melissa Evans’ left arm near her elbow in late 2014, she didn’t give it much thought. The school cafeteria manager had always bruised fairly easily. She assumed she’d bumped it somehow, and that the growth would resolve on its own.
The 45-year-old never imagined that the lump would turn out to be an extremely rare form of leukemia called blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm...
Daughter’s persistence shows importance of not delaying cancer screenings
Judy Garcia is still too young to need a regular mammogram herself. But as a breast ultrasound technologist, the 30-year-old knows how important...