CAR NK cell therapy bolsters the body’s innate ability to fight cancer by attaching molecules called chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) to natural killer cells (NK cells). These receptors allow the newly enhanced CAR NK cells to recognize targets on the surface of previously “invisible” cancer cells and attack them.
At MD Anderson, this novel form of immunotherapy was initially offered only through clinical trials to...
Richter transformation, historically called Richter syndrome, can affect patients who have or have not been treated for chronic lymphocytic...
Leukemia treatments have been constantly improving from the days when patients had to come to the hospital or clinic for intravenous doses...
How many types of leukemia are there? What makes each one unique, and are they treated any differently?
We went to leukemia specialist Naveen Pemmaraju, M.D., for answers to these questions and more. Here’s what he shared.
How many different types of leukemia are there?
Quite a few. Leukemia is not just a single disease. It’s actually a diverse group of blood-based cancers that originate in the bone marrow...
If you were faced with something bigger and scarier than you initially knew how to deal with, how would you handle it? Would you sit back...
When I got my second cancer diagnosis in early 2017, I was already going to MD Anderson regularly to see Dr. Alessandra Ferrajoli. I’d been...
Britt Mayo has been coming to MD Anderson regularly since 2010, when he was first diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
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Mary Hernandez didn’t realize how sick she was when she came to the MD Anderson Emergency Center on March 30. The 41-year-old was still reeling...
Since Robert Alvarado was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 2014, his family has accompanied him to each appointment, from...
While its name was inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious goal to put a man on the moon, the Moon Shots Program...