Bone Marrow Transplantation News

An “off-the-shelf” approach using virus-directed virus-specific T cells safely and effectively treated patients with severe viral infections following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, according to phase 2 trial results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

ASCO and Friends of Cancer Research today released recommendations to broaden eligibility criteria for cancer clinical trials.

ASH presented $150,000 to five investigators through the society’s bridge grant program, designed to sustain promising hematologic research proposals that are not funded through NIH.

Mike Schmidt, a Major League Baseball Hall of Famer who played 17 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies, received a stage III melanoma diagnosis in 2013.

Forty percent of adults at an urban cancer center received a diagnosis of depression, according to a study presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting.

States that enacted Medicaid expansion as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act showed a reduction in uninsured rates among patients with cancer receiving radiation, according to a study presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting.

Mike Schmidt, whose success during his 17-year career with the Philadelphia Phillies earned him induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, received a stage III melanoma diagnosis 4 years ago.

Mike Schmidt, elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995, developed a sense of invincibility during his 17-year career with the Philadelphia Phillies.

One-quarter of patients with cancer in a state with legalized marijuana reported using the substance in the prior year, according to results of a cross-sectional, anonymous survey published in Cancer.

Pawel Muranski, MD, has been joined NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center as director of cellular immunotherapy at the newly established Good Manufacturing Practices cell production lab and assistant director of transfusion medicine and cellular therapy.