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Lymphoma's Link to Hepatitis C

Researchers at the University of Hopkins found a new study shows some cancer patients who also have the hepatitis C virus may benefit from treatment with the drug, interferon.Past research has suggested a connection between the hepatitis C virus and some B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma's. //A patient with both of these diseases was treated with the antiviral treatment interferon. The patient resp...

Lymphedema patients can benefit form exercise

Lymphedema, which is a common problem for breast cancer patients, is an abnormal buildup of fluid that causes swelling, most often in the arms or legs, and develops when lymph vessels or lymph nodes are missing, impaired, damaged, or removed. Secondary lymphedema can develop from infection, malignancy, surgery, scar tissue formation, trauma,// deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in a vein), radiatio...

A Vaccine For Non – Hodgkin’s Lymphom

At present researchers have discovered vaccines to various diseases such as flu, measles, whooping cough and other illnesses. Now, scientists are testing vaccines to keep cancer from coming back. // Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph system that almost always comes back, even after chemotherapy and eventually most of these patients ultimately develop resistant disease and...

A vaccine for lymphoma

Clinical trials are to start on a vaccine which could help blood cancer sufferers overcome the disease. The vaccine, developed by a research team from Southampton University, works by kick starting the body's immune system to fight lymphoma, a cancer of the immune cells in the blood. Using the new technique, scientists are able to remove a sample of tumour cells// from a patient, and...

Helicobacter pylori Antibiotic Treatment of Peptic Ulcer May not Prevent Gastric lymphomas

Stanford, CA -- Successful eradication of Helicobacter may not prevent future aggressive gastric lymphoma since resting B cells are left behind. This was reported by Research led by Dr. Anne Mueller at Stanford University // School of Medicine. The paper by Mueller et al., "The role of antigenic drive and tumor-infiltrating accessory cells in the pathogenesis of Helicobacter-induced MA...

Lymph Cell Growth In Eyes Related To Macrophages

Researchers from Harvard Medical School had discovered a kind of immune cells called macrophages are behind the growth of new lymph vessels in the eyes. These new lymph vessels help in healing of the eyes in case of there being any wounds. // The discovery of this new role for the macrophage, published in the September 2005 Journal of Clinical Investigation, may ultimately inspire inn...

Gene Fusion Test to screen children’s with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemi

Dr Moorman and his colleagues from Southampton University have found a new gene based test for identifying DNA fusion, in which DNA of two or more genes fuse. The research team is focusing on detection of genes // linked to the most common form of childhood leukemia, which is called as Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). The researchers took more than 6 years to develop this genetic test. The tre...

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia May Attain a 90% Cure Rate

The improvements made in diagnoses and treatment of the fatal childhood cancer acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) will result in a cure rate of 90%, according to researchers belonging to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.// The progressive improvement in the cure rate since 1962, when only 4% of children with ALL survived, reflects in large part the more effective use of exis...

Malaria Can Develop In Lymph Nodes Also

The malaria parasites can develop in the lymph nodes also, according to a recent research, led by Robert Ménard. This reportedly has implications for the mammalian immune response. // The dreaded disease is caused when a mosquito infected with Plasmodium bites a mammal, and the immature parasites travel to the animal's liver. Once they have fully developed, the parasites burst out of...

Artificial sweetener, Aspartame, may be the potential cause of lymphoma, leukaemia

It has been found through an animal study that Aspartame can cause lymphoma, leukaemia. The study points out that drinking four to five 20-ounce bottles of diet soda sweetened with aspartame each day would be the //cause of cancers. The study would be published in March issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, an US government-run environmental science journal. The method...

No Lymphoma Risk From Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs

There has been an increasing fear regarding the elevated risk of lymphoma associated with rheumatoid arthritis treatment// A new study by Swedish researchers has found that such treatments may not confer an increased susceptibility to cancer, the results of which can be seen in the latest issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism journal. The risk of cancer has been found to increase with worse...

'Good' And 'Evil' Clones Of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia cells

According to Australian scientists, there are two types of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) cells, good and bad. //The latter type of cells are those that have a pre-existing immunity to drugs used to treat ALL, that is responsible for relapse after treatment. The discovery means that now researchers may be able to design therapies that will specifically target these resistant subclo...

Poor awareness of lymphomas

A recent survey conducted in Australia shows that majority of Australians actually know very little about lymphomas. // A variety of cancers affecting the lymphatic system is termed as lymphomas. Its the lymphatic system in the human body that helps to sieve out bacteria and aids to fight disease. Data reveals that it’s the fifth most prevalent cancer that afflicts more women...

Lenalidomide Gives New Hope To Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patients

According to a phase II study conducted by Asher Chanan-Khan, MD, Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), patients treated with lenalidomide// for relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or diseases that no longer responded to chemotherapy have experienced a major response to the therapy. The results of this study were published in the December 1 issue of the Journal of...

Lymphocyte/WBC Ratio Helps in Treating ENT Disorders

According to an article in the January issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, measuring a patient's ratio of white blood cell types may help physicians accurately //distinguish between the similar conditions infectious mononucleosis and bacterial tonsillitis, potentially guiding treatment decisions. Acute tonsillitis (inflammation o...

New Guidelines For Assessing Lymphoma Treatment

An international team of cancer specialists and imaging experts has developed standardized guidelines for assessing lymphoma response to treatment//. The guidelines will provide clinicians worldwide with uniform criteria to compare and interpret clinical trials of lymphoma treatments and should facilitate the development of new therapies. The new guidelines developed by the Internation...

A New Treatment Discovered For Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

A study undertaken by a group of Spanish scientists, amongst which were members of the University Clinic of the University of Navarra and the Centre for Applied Medical Research// (CIMA) of the same university has recently discovered a new line of treatment for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The conclusions of the research have been published in the official journal, Blood,...

A Novel Treatment for KSHV-infected Lymphomas

Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is a human tumor virus which causes Kaposi’s sarcoma and primary// effusion lymphoma (PEL). PELs are aggressive lymphomas with reported median survival time less than six months after diagnosis. Researchers at the University of Helsinki have discovered that activation of the p53 pathway offers a novel effective treatment modality for KSH...

Doctors Warned to Keep Track of Tumorous Lymph Nodes

Scientists have come out with study results that encourage health care providers to take into account the number of lymph nodes// marked by the presence of tumor cells in colon cancer patients, taken during follow up. This, researchers opine, may be a definite clue to chances of reccurence , as this number was shown to be positively associated with risks of the cancer staging a comeback. <...

Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivors at Risk for Secondary Cancer

A new study finds that survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia have a significantly increased risk of secondary cancers when compared to the general population. // Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common cancer in children and adolescents, with almost 4,000 new cases diagnosed in the United States each year. It is also one of the most curable pediatric cancers: survival rates f...

Long-term Oral Steroid Therapy Decreases Lymphoma Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis

According to a study, two years or more of oral steroid treatment decreases the risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) related lymphoma. Furthermore, these effects were found regardless of when in the course of the disease the steroids were first administered. However, these beneficial effects were not observed if the steroids were taken for less than a two-year period. The...

Malaria Parasite can Cause Severe Lymphatic Cancer

Researchers have found that a cancer of the lymphatic system, Burkitt's lymphoma, can be initiated by CIDR1, a protein produced by a malaria parasite. The study was conducted by a team of researchers including Arnaud Chene and Qijun Chen at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Burkitt's lymphoma severely affects a large number of children in equatorial Afric...

Study Finds Lymphoma Drug Effective Over Long Term

Eight years after being treated with a new drug for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 86 percent of patients were still alive and half had not had a relapse of their disease, according to researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The patients had follicular lymphoma, a type of cancer that is not considered to be curable using traditional treatments. Even if pati...

Lymphoma Patients Maybe Helped by Adding Radioimmunotherapy to Chemo

CHICAGO, According to a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago and published as Abstract 8005 in the ASCO proceedings, patients treated for follicular lymphoma, a slow-growing type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, may benefit from chemotherapy followed by radioimmunotherapy. Over 9...

Gene Mutation That Increases the Risk of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Found

Scientists at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered an inherited gene mutation that makes a person more vulnerable to chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). The study shows that the inherited mutation greatly reduces the gene's protective activity. Furthermore, a second kind of change occurs later that turns the gene off altogether, leading to leukemia. T...

Risk of Lymphoma Increases With Hepatitis C Virus Infection

People infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are at an increased risk of developing certain lymphomas (cancers of the lymphatic system), according to a study published in the May 8, 2007, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Baylor College of Medicine, found that HCV infe...

Lymphocyte Count Found to Be a Predictor of Survival for Young Patients With Leukemia

One simple blood test could predict relapse or survival for children and young adults with acute leukemias, researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported. A review of young leukemia patients over the past decade has shown that the absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), a measure of normal immune cells found on every complet...

New Engineered Drug Shows Promise in Treating Lymphocytic Leukaemia

A recent research has found that a new type of engineered drug may have the potential to treat chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. The study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center was published online in the journal Blood. The research has established that an engineered drug candidate is promising in treating lymphocytic leukemia in both t...

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy is Linked With Increase in Breast Cancer Rates

According to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the incidence of some early stage metastatic breast cancers is increasing, but this finding is likely explained by changes in clinical practice. Deirdre Cronin-Fenton, Ph.D., of Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, with colleagues at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., found that the increas...

Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma Shows Steady Increase

The cancer known as cutaneous T-cell lymphoma became substantially more common in the United States between 1973 and 2002 , according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Dermatology. The rates of the disease vary by race, sex and geographic area. Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma occurs when certain cells of the lymph system (called T lymphocytes) become cancerous and affect the skin....