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Understanding Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) In Children And Adults

Ask the Expert: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Know Your Options

Burlington and The Leukemia and Lymphoma Surprise a Young Survivor

LLS PedAL: Precision Medicine for Children with Leukemia

Highlights in Therapy: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) 3D Model

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This model contains the following chapters. Click the "Interact in 3D" button to begin.

• Healthy Bone Marrow
• Normal Blood Cell Production
• Proliferation of Cells and the Crowding Out of Normal Cells
• ALL Signs and Symptoms

Meet The Researcher: Dr. Rayne Rouce

The Immune System and Blood Cancer: 4 Things You Need to Know

Immunotherapy uses the power of the immune system to treat blood cancer. Today it is a standard treatment that has a profound effect in some blood cancer patients, but it still falls short in others. 

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has been a champion of this type of cancer treatment for decades, supporting some of the earliest and most game-changing immune-based treatments for blood cancer. The advances have been astonishing, but there is so much further to go. 

Reflecting on a Year of Accomplishments and Looking Forward to 2017

LLS President and CEO Louis J. DeGennaro shares his optimism about LLS’s role and promise for patients.

The Fruits of Our Funding

Advances in cancer research seem to be occurring at dizzying speed these days.

Cardioprotective Strategies and Cardiotoxicity Prediction in Children with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

We seek to reduce the adverse cardiac effects of chemotherapy in pediatric AML patients. We are assessing markers of heart function and injury to compare two clinical strategies for prevention of chemotherapy-induced heart injury. We are also developing a tool using these markers of heart function to characterize a child’s risk for cardiac dysfunction, which is critical to guiding safe chemotherapy delivery.

Barely Legal, Barely Leukemic: My CML Story

I arrived at college in September, barely legal, but fully ready to live out the Hollywood higher education stereotype. I was fighting a cold but didn’t let that stop me from attending every party I could. The revelry lasted until October, when the “cold” was diagnosed as chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). I went to the university health center on suspicions of mono, and the next thing I knew I was on the oncology floor of a Boston hospital.

Beyond Blankets: Subaru Loves to Care brings comfort and warmth

Blood cancer treatment can be a scary and confusing time. And blood cancer patients want to feel like they’re not alone. 

That’s why The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and Subaru are partnering to bring warmth and comfort to blood cancer patients through warm blankets, patient care kits, and handwritten notes of encouragement.

Glycotyping as a novel approach to study leukemia stem cell heterogeneity and function

Leukemia stem cells (LSCs) are highly heterogeneous populations and key contributors to AML progression. Here, I aim to employ heparan sulfate (HS) glycotyping to resolve LSC heterogeneity. Using complementary genetic and antibody-based approaches, I will delineate the functional roles of HS pathway during AML progression. The newer insights provided by these studies could potentially uncover novel LSC therapies and facilitate diverse training for me to become an independent leukemia researcher.

Advances in Cancer Research and Treatment in 2020

Progress in new cancer treatments is accelerating so rapidly that the standard of care for many cancer patients is changing right before our very eyes.

Since 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a remarkable 53 therapies just to treat patients with blood cancers, and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has helped advance 46 of these treatments.

I have no reason to believe the next few years won’t be as productive and groundbreaking as the last few. With that, here are some of my predictions for 2020:

Targeting Leukemia Stem Cells in the Clinical Setting: The Development of A Comprehensive Program

My focus is to develop a program in which novel therapies targeting leukemia stem cells (LSCs) are tested in clinical trials. This is achieved via partnership with laboratory-based colleagues who identify vulnerabilities in LSCs. Once recognized, we find or develop drugs to exploit these weaknesses through clinical trials for acute myeloid leukemia patients. The goal is to bring forward new therapies that result in deep and durable responses, which also have the potential to cure this disease.

Precision Medicine Inhibitor and Immunotherapy Approaches for High-Risk Childhood Leukemias

Dr Tasian’s scientific passion is successful development of precision medicine therapies for high-risk childhood leukemia. Her translational laboratory research program focuses upon investigation of kinase inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapies in childhood ALL and AML using primary patient specimens and patient-derived xenograft models. Through her laboratory and clinical research, she aspires to improve cure rates and minimize toxicities for children with leukemia.

Synergistic targeting of metabolic and epigenetic vulnerabilities in leukemia stem cells

Our lab is focused on identifying unique features that distinguishes acute myeloid leukemia (AML) stem cells from normal blood-forming stem cells. The cells that make more AML cells than others are called AML stem cells, and these cells need to be eradicated to achieve deep therapeutic responses. We believe targeting metabolism may achieve this goal and found strategies to target AML stem cell metabolism without harming normal stem cells. We hope that our study will lead to improved therapies against AML targeting metabolism to achieve deep remission with little toxicity.

Lower Dose Mitoxantrone for Venetoclax Resistant Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Venetoclax-based regimens are the standard of care for many patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and are highly active therapeutic strategies for this challenging disease. However, some patients do not respond, and most patients who do respond will relapse. We have discovered that resistance to venetoclax may be mediated by the movement patterns of calcium throughout a cell. Furthermore, we have found that mitoxantrone, a conventional chemotherapy agent, can interrupt these calcium fluctuations at very low doses.

Precision Medicine and Combination Therapies #ASH20

Cladribine

Cladribine is FDA approved to treat people who have active hairy cell leukemia. It is also used to treat some other types of leukemia and lymphoma.

Venetoclax

Venetoclax is FDA approved 

• For the treatment of adult patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). 
• In combination with azacitidine, or decitabine, or low-dose cytarabine for the treatment of newly-diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in adults who are age 75 years or older, or who have comorbidities that preclude use of intensive induction chemotherapy.