Can leukemia be treated with a pill?
Leukemia treatments have been constantly improving from the days when patients had to come to the hospital or clinic for intravenous doses of chemotherapy that caused unwanted side effects. Now, leukemia treatment often can be as convenient as a medication taken at home — a pill (or pills) with drugs highly customized to the person’s type of leukemia and even the genetic mutations present within those individual’s cancer cells.
A next-generation treatment for bile duct cancer
For patients with cholangiocarcinoma, or bile duct cancer, the first line of treatment often includes standard cancer treatments, such as...
Clinical trial of new AhR inhibitor shows cancer might be even more wily than we thought
The human immune system is constantly attacking damaged cells that might turn into cancer, thus protecting us from these cells growing out...
Your questions about BCMA and multiple myeloma, answered
You may have heard someone with multiple myeloma mention the possibility of BCMA-targeted therapy and wondered what BCMA means and why it is relevant in cancer treatments.
For answers to these questions and more, we spoke to Hans Lee, M.D., director of multiple myeloma clinical research at MD Anderson.
What is BCMA?BCMA stands for B cell maturation antigen, and it's emerged as an important target in multiple myeloma...
What’s new in CAR T cell therapy? Solid tumor advances
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been an amazing advance for treating blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and multiple...