leukemia

“Just do what’s best for you because it’s really hard being a cancer patient,” he told TODAY.

British teen actor Archie Lyndhurst’s mother has revealed the cause of his sudden death and shared a beautiful, yet heartbreaking tribute to her late son.

Ariel Griffith is in intensive care and fighting for her life.

Expanding access to a promising but costly treatment, Medicare said Wednesday it will cover for some blood cancers a breakthrough gene therapy that revs up a patient’s own immune cells to destroy malignancies. Officials said Medicare will cover CAR-T cell therapies for certain types of lymphoma and leukemia. The cost of the treatments can run to hundreds of thousands of...

Across Major League Baseball, Brock Holt is widely considered one of the best utility players in the league. In the last two years, the Red Sox star has played every position on the field except for pitcher and catcher. Yet it’s his success in a role off the diamond that earned him praise this week.

A viral fan known as the “Fist Bump Kid” is hoping to fist bump the Boston Bruins all the way to a Stanley Cup victory. Liam Fitzgerald, who has Down syndrome, was still battling Leukemia the last time the B’s won the Cup in 2011. He received national attention after a video in 2014 showed him fist-bumping every player that...

A viral fan known as the “Fist Bump Kid” is hoping to fist bump the Boston Bruins all the way to a Stanley Cup victory. Liam Fitzgerald, who has Down syndrome, was still battling Leukemia the last time the B’s won the Cup in 2011. He received national attention after a video in 2014 showed him fist-bumping every player that...

In 2014, Gabby DeFilippo from Livingston, NJ was diagnosed with leukemia and has bravely endured 2.5 years of daily treatment.

After nearly 40 years of protection, the U.S. Secret Service has ended its detail for President George H.W. Bush, known by the code name “Timberwolf.”

George H.W. Bush’s granddaughter on Sunday remembered his rich life — and his emotional final moments as she told him to say “hi to Ganny” in heaven.

Robert “Bob” McNair, billionaire founder and owner of the Houston Texans, has died. He was 81.

He may not have the height, but this new player certainly has the strength and the heart to join Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s men’s basketball team. Boston-headquartered national nonprofit Team IMPACT, whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children facing serious and chronic illnesses through the power of team, along with WPI Men’s Basketball, held a special draft...

A new government cancer map shows that rates of childhood cancer are highest in the Northeast United States and lowest in the South, NBC News reported. Rates of pediatric lymphoma and brain cancer are higher in the Northeast while leukemia is more common in the West, according to the map. It isn’t clear why the rates vary and, since pediatric...

Nearly half of U.S. cancer doctors who responded to a survey say they’ve recently recommended medical marijuana to patients, although most say they don’t know enough about medicinal use. The results reflect how marijuana policy in some states has outpaced research, the study authors said. All 29 states with medical marijuana programs allow doctors to recommend it to cancer...

The fourth annual Gift of Life marrow registry’s 5K was extra special this year, thanks to a powerful meeting of a donor and man whose life he helped save.

Cancer survivor Mary Shertenlieb wasn’t about to let rain, wind or cold stop her.

U.S. regulators have approved the first targeted drug for certain patients with an aggressive form of leukemia. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the drug for adults with acute myeloid leukemia who have a genetic mutation called FLT3. Also OK’d was a test to identify those patients. The drug, Rydapt, known chemically as midostaurin, is used along with...

A North Texas girl is taking her cancer fight to Washington D.C. Nine-year-old Sadie Keller is calling on Vice President Joe Biden to help make childhood cancer research a national priority.

The Federal Drug Administration is allowing a team of Bay Area psychotherapists to experiment with ecstasy to treat patients.