Bone Marrow Transplantation News

Mike Schmidt, a former member of the Philadelphia Phillies widely considered to be the greatest third baseman in Major League Baseball history, received a stage III melanoma diagnosis in 2013.

Mike Schmidt is widely considered the greatest third baseman in Major League Baseball history.

Mike Schmidt always felt a sense of invincibility as a professional athlete.

Basic research in immunotherapy and precision medicine remains at the forefront of progress in cancer treatment; however, a strong bipartisan commitment from Congress is needed to continue this progress, according to the seventh annual AACR Cancer Progress Report.

The FDA granted orphan drug designation to ATA230 for the treatment of cytomegalovirus viremia and disease in immunocompromised patients, according to the drug’s manufacturer.

A simple formula predicted OS and nonrelapse mortality among adults with acute graft-versus-host disease who underwent allogeneic stem-cell transplantation with reduced-intensity conditioning, according to retrospective study results.

U.S. Marshals recently seized five vials of a smallpox vaccine that a California stem cell company was using in an unapproved and risky procedure, the FDA has announced.

Fox Chase Cancer Center announced several appointments.

Vorinostat appeared safe and effective combined with standard graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis for patients undergoing matched unrelated donor hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with myeloablative conditioning, according to a single-center, prospective phase 2 study published in Blood.

Older patients with cancer often reported having better physical function, mental health and social support than their caregivers’ assessments, according to study results published in The Oncologist.