Bone Marrow Transplantation News

Alcohol use — whether light, moderate or heavy — increases cancer risk, and public health measures are needed to reduce high-risk alcohol consumption, according to an ASCO statement.

HemOnc Today and Healio.com/HemOnc will provide live coverage of the Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium, which will be held Nov. 8-10 in New York.

Nearly 2 years after former Vice President Joe Biden unveiled the cancer moonshot initiative, The Lancet Oncology Commission has detailed a roadmap to deliver on the recommendations of the moonshot’s blue ribbon panel.

ASH today announced the election of three new members to its executive committee.

A joint policy statement released by the AAP Sections on Hematology/Oncology and Allergy and Immunology emphasizes the importance of donating cord blood to public banks for later use in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to treat children with malignancies, blood disorders, immune deficiencies and metabolic disorders.

Minimal residual disease detected by next-generation sequencing following autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation had significant prognostic value among patients with multiple myeloma, according to results of a study published in Annals of Oncology.

Oncology leaders who participated in an American Association for Cancer Research webinar this afternoon highlighted several advances in cancer research and emphasized the importance of robust medical research funding.

SAN DIEGO — Francisco Marty, MD, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, reviews the efficacy of letermovir as prophylaxis for cytomegalovirus in high-risk hematopoietic cell transplant patients.

NIH launched the Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies, a 5-year public-private research collaboration.

A deficiency in vitamin D prior to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation increased risk for relapse among patients with myeloid malignancies, according to a retrospective study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.