Managing Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Steroids Corticosteroids (“steroids”) curb inflammation and are used to treat many conditions. They may also be part of your CLL treatment and help control side effects from chemo. Your doctor may prescribe one, such as prednisone, as part of your CLL treat...
What is Stem Cell Therapy? Stem cell therapy or stem cell treatment is a clinical application that utilizes stem cells to treat or manage various medical conditions.Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that have the ability to develop into different cell types in the body, such as muscle, bone...
It is used clinically to treat neutropenia in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, in AIDS patients during therapy, and in patients after bone marrow transplantation. Interestingly, the hematopoietic system of GM-CSF-deficient mice appears to be normal; the most significant changes are in some ...
What should patients think about when they are considering a stem cell therapy? Going to a for-profit, unproven stem cell clinic is particularly risky and raises more questions. Patient guide to stem cell therapies For better or worse, I am in the unique position of being a stem cell ...
It is too arbitrary and premature to deny the future of the entire field as the result of a single trial failure in the context of some reasonable doubt raised accordingly. Which biomarker should be used for IDO1 selective inhibitor therapy? The term biomarker is commonly understood as ...
Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) Targeted therapies for c-KIT/PDGFR driven cancers are: Imatinib mesylate Sunitinib malate. HER family of genes HER (human epidermal growth factor receptor) family with four types of proto-oncogenes (HER1 to HER4) were the first to be selected for targeted...
While cancer is one of the worst, regularly eating the cancer causing foods in our top ten list can also lead to heart disease, diabetes, chronic inflammation, and so much more. What Causes Cancer? Understanding possible causes of cancer comes down to understanding the causes of gene and DNA...
It is called therapy-related MDS or t-MDS. Some people with MDS have a change, or mutation, in the JAK2 (Janus kinase 2) gene. People with MDS often have changes in certain chromosomes. MDS can sometimes be inherited (passed from parent to child). Risk factors may include: Exposure to...
There is an ongoing shift in demographics such that older persons will outnumber young persons in the coming years, and with it age-associated tissue attri
(and ongoing) injections of a gene therapy that already holds the title of the planets most deadly (Faux) vaccine (more deadly than all others combined). What will it take to convince y’all that this isn’t good … it isn’t even all-right … it is a disaster for humanity is ...