Articles tagged with: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
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One of The Myeloma Beacon's most popular news stories of 2011 reported on an important new development in the use of gene therapy to treat blood cancers.
In particular, the article described promising results from a small study using gene therapy to treat patients who have chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and it looked at how those results might translate into new therapies for multiple myeloma (see related Beacon news).
Since the results of the CLL study were made public last year, follow-up results and additional ongoing studies further indicate …
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A promising experimental method for treating advanced leukemia may point the way to important new treatment options for multiple myeloma.
“It is very exciting,” said Dr. Leif Bergsagel, a myeloma specialist from the Mayo Clinic in Arizona who was not involved in the study investigating the leukemia treatment. “I think this approach could and should be extended to multiple myeloma.” He pointed out, however, that “It will be several years before myeloma patients will be treated this way.”
In two recently published research articles, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania described initial results of a pilot study they are conducting. The results …