lymphoma

The death of Hollywood actor Andy Whitfield from non-Hodgkin lymphoma has left fans stunned.

Silicone breast implants are relatively safe despite frequent complications and a small increased risk of lymphoma, US drug regulators say.

(RAND Corporation) Breast implants appear to be associated with a rare form of lymphoma, but there is not yet evidence to show that the cancer is caused by implants or to suggest an underlying mechanism for how the disease might develop, according to a study by researchers from the RAND Corporation.

(MedPage Today) -- A mix of caution, approval, and a touch of I-told-you-so greeted the FDA announcement that breast implants have been linked to a rare form of lymphoma.

(American Society of Hematology) Although the use of ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation has lead to 13 live births in women with lymphoma or solid tumors, this method of fertility preservation may be unsafe for patients with leukemia, according to a recent study published online in Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology.

(Scott & White Healthcare) Scott & White's Cancer Research Institute is conducting a clinical trial that targets malignant T-cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.

(Lymphoma Research Foundation) Highlights from the Lymphoma Research Foundation 2009 Mantle Cell Lymphoma Consortium Scientific Workshop will be published in the March 2010 issue of Leukemia & Lymphoma.

Traditionally accessible to subscribers for period of one year, Leukemia and Lymphoma has agreed to make this report available to the public for one month -- Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Report of the 2009 MCL Consortium Workshop.

(University of Alberta) A healthy dose of exercise is good medicine, even for lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy, University of Alberta researchers have found.

(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) Carriers have nearly twice the risk of developing follicular lymphoma, according to cancer's first genome-wide association study.

(Journal of the National Cancer Institute) Patients treated for Hodgkin lymphoma with radiation therapy have a substantially higher risk of stroke, according to a new study published June 17 online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.