Aggressive follicular lymphomas are a subtype of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas, or NHLs. Most follicular lymphomas are indolent and grow slowly. However, they sometimes transform into more aggressive tumors. Follicular lymphomas are the second most...
Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that plays an important role in the immune system. Normally, plasma cells help fight infection. They collect in the bone marrow,--the spongy, soft center of the...
A bone marrow transplant can be helpful in replacing damaged or destroyed bone marrow needed by the body for the production of blood cells. Bone marrow transplants are used to treat multiple disorders, such as lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma,...
Acute leukemia, a type of cancer that affects bone marrow, causes immature white blood cells called blast cells to proliferate and crowd out other blood cells. An estimated 42,000 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in the United States in...
Chronic myelogenous leukemia, also called CML, is a blood and bone marrow disease that develops slowly and usually appears in people after middle age. It is characterized by the proliferation of a type of white blood cell called granulocytes,...
The American Cancer Society defines multiple myeloma as cancer that starts in plasma cells. Plasma cells are found in bone marrow and also have a role in the body's immune system. When cancer forms in the plasma cells, a tumor forms, typically in...
Chronic lymphatic leukemia is also called chronic lymphocytic leukemia or CLL. All these names refer to the same disease. CLL differs from acute lymphatic leukemia in that it has a slow and insidious onset. Symptoms may not be obvious for many...
According to 2004 information from the National Marrow Donor Program, 45,000 to 50,000 bone marrow transplants are done every year worldwide. There are two types of transplants: autologous and allogeneic. An autologous transplant is when the...
A bone marrow transplant comes with many risks; however it has saved many lives from leukemia, severe aplastic anemia, Hodgkin's disease, myelodysplastic syndromes and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. According to the National Marrow Donor Program, the...
Bone marrow transplant (BMT) provides healthy stem cells to replace cells lost to chemotherapy, radiation or disease. When the new cells are infused at transplant, it allows the bone marrow to produce healthy stem cells and attack any cancer cells...
AIDS--acquired immune deficiency syndrome--is the final and most serious stage of HIV disease, an infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. HIV can be transmitted from an infected person to another through sexual contact, use of...
Bone marrow is a material found in the bones. Stem cells are the immature cells in bone marrow. These cells can grow into platelets, red blood cells or white blood cells, all of which are necessary for the body to function properly. Bone marrow...
Donating blood is a generous life-saving gift which is tolerated very well by most donors. But some donors, especially teen donors, may experience side effects from donating blood. Most effects are minor but less than 1 percent of blood donors may...
Bone marrow transplants (BMT) are treatments for blood, immune system or genetic disorders. The most common diseases treated by BMT are cancers, inherited immune disorders and sickle cell disease. A donor provides the cells used in allogeneic...
Individuals who suffer from bone or blood diseases that don't respond to other treatments may be candidates for a bone marrow transplant. In this procedure, healthy bone marrow stem cells from a donor are placed into the bones of the recipient,...
Valtrex is a brand name of the medication valacyclovir hydrochloride which is used to treat cold sores, shingles, chickenpox and herpes. Although there can be many benefits of taking Valtrex, there are also many potentially serious side effects as...
Cancer affects one to two children for every 10,000 children in the United States and is the leading cause of death by disease under the age of 14, according to the National Cancer Institute. Of the 12 major types of cancer in children, over half...
Cancer treatment depends on the cancer type, stage, location and the general health of the patient. Cancer treatment modalities include chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, bone marrow transplants and laser surgery. The combination of two or more...
Childhood leukemia is the most common form of cancer in children. The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center based in Houston estimates that more than 3,500 children are diagnosed with leukemia every year in the United States. Leukemia...
People with cancers such as leukemia or lymphoma often benefit from stem cell transplants. Stem cells that develop into blood cells are removed and transfused into the person with cancer to replace cells destroyed by chemotherapy or radiation....
Kidney cancer is one of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) top ten most common cancers. It projects there will be 58,240 new cases of kidney cancer and 13,040 deaths from this disease. Although this disease often strikes smokers and people who...
B cell lymphoma is a subset of the group of diseases called non-Hodgkin lymphoma. According to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, these are a diverse group of diseases that involves the lymphatic system of the body. About 85 percent of patients...
N-acetyl cysteine available as a nutritional supplement and as an FDA-approved drug provides antioxidant support for the body. Antioxidants prevent accumulation of free radicals inside our cells. N-acetyl cysteine provides the cysteine component...
