like B-cell chronic leukemia and T-cell leukemia, and these deeper understandings open the door to innovative approaches that can make a difference for blood cancer patients in the future.

What Do Your Blood Cells Do?Leukemia develops in the blood cells produced by your bone marrow. These include: Red blood cells (RBCs), which deliver oxygen throughout the bodyWhite blood cells (WBCs), ...

If a person has ever received a leukemia diagnosis, they cannot donate blood or blood products. Hemoglobin is a protein in red blood cells. If hemoglobin levels appear abnormal, the healthcare ...

Philadelphia chromosome: an abnormal version of chromosome 22 that may cause immature white blood cells to grow ...

Symptoms of cancers that attack your blood cells usually come on slowly ... who work together to manage their cancer. Many types of leukemia produce no obvious symptoms in the early stages.

“It was, yes, that makes sense. Let’s give that a try.” By then, he was focused on chronic myelogenous leukemia—a type of ...

The development of CAR-T technology in recent years has been a major milestone in the fight against cancer. These sort of "living drugs"—T-cells modified to expand, recognize and attack cancer ...

Dr. Samah Nassereddine is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology & Oncology at The George ...

In a new paper published in Cellular & Molecular Immunology, USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu and her collaborators point the finger at a small subset of blood stem cells ... and gerontology at USC, ...