Patient Care CLL Wonder Drug has a Downside: Weight Gain By Leslie Orr Nov. 18, 2019 The drug ibrutinib is a highly effective treatment for people with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), but a new Wilmot Cancer Institute study shows that weight gain, as a drug side effect, should be ...
Patient Care Researchers Aim to Keep Blood Healthier, Less Prone to Cancer By Leslie Orr May. 21, 2019 As the body ages so does the blood, raising the risk of leukemia and other blood cancers. A recent Wilmot Cancer Institute discovery showed a new way in which blood degrades when inflammation ...
Patient Care Watch for Wilmot during 2019 Super Bowl By Ruth Harper-Rhode Jan. 31, 2019 UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute will be featured in a commercial that will air during the 2019 Super Bowl, which starts at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 3. The ad highlights several key facts about ...
Patient Care Lower Doses, at Home. Is This the Future of CLL Treatment? By Leslie Orr Dec. 12, 2018 Wilmot Cancer Institute research shows that giving antibody therapy more often but at lower doses — and perhaps teaching patients how to inject themselves at home — could be a future option for ...
Research Delving Where Few Others Have Gone, Leukemia Researchers Open New Path By Leslie Orr Oct. 15, 2018 A Wilmot Cancer Institute study uncovers how a single gene could be at fault in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the deadliest cancers. The breakthrough gives researchers renewed hope that a ...
Research Melanoma Linked with CLL, Wilmot Recommends Close Monitoring By Leslie Orr Aug. 13, 2018 While studying a large group of individuals with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a Wilmot Cancer Institute scientific team made an important discovery — these patients had a sizable 600 percent ...
Patient Care UR Medicine Helps Genesee County Family Embrace Heart of Holidays By Leslie White Dec. 21, 2017 Carrie Thornley Fisher was in heart failure near the end of her second pregnancy. After giving birth to a healthy boy, the 32-year-old spent nearly two months on life-saving mechanical support until ...
Research Wilmot Scientists Reap Awards, Presentations at Hematology Meeting By Leslie Orr Dec. 7, 2017 Wilmot Cancer Institute has a longstanding strength in the study of blood cancers—and from Dec. 9-12, many of our scientists will be presenting research at the 59th annual meeting of the American ...
Patient Care From AML to Ph.D.: How Wilmot helped one patient diagnosed with leukemia By Lydia Fernandez Oct. 5, 2017 Ege Ozen was working toward his Ph.D. in Political Science when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). His oncology team at Wilmot and his wife have helped him through, and he achieved ...
Research In Lifetime of Achievement, URMC Hematologist is Grateful for Opportunities, Longevity By Leslie Orr Aug. 24, 2017 Marshall A. Lichtman, M.D., a University of Rochester hematologist/oncologist and former dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, will receive one of the highest honors in his field from the ...
