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Welcome to your home for all things Mayo Clinic Hematology. At Mayo Clinic, hematologists work in collaboration with teams of experts from virtually every medical and surgical specialty for the care of adults and children with blood diseases, including various cancers of the blood and bone marrow. Follow the Hematology page and stay up-to-date as we post stories, clinical trials, resources, and useful information regarding your hematological diagnosis. Post a comment and share your thoughts.
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Mayo Clinic neurologist, Michael Ruff, M.D., discusses some potential side-effects of CAR-T treatment. Learn more about how CAR-T affects the immune system and a side-effect…
Mayo Clinic hematologist, J.C. Villasboas, M.D., discusses a new way to measure and monitor a lymphoma patient's immune system during treatment. What used to take…
Mayo Clinic hematologist, Dr. Yi Lin, discusses what a patient can expect when undergoing chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) at Mayo…
Mayo Clinic's CAR-T Cell Therapy Program offers a new cancer immunotherapy that involves genetically modifying T cells to activate the immune system to recognize and…
Imagine if you could "re-train" the body's immune system to attack and kill a very specific target. That's essentially how Mohamed Kharfan Dabaja, M.D., director…
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed two new strategies that may improve the performance of chimeric antigen receptor therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) in treating cancer. They are presenting…
Cancer cells have learned and evolved to display a protein on their surface that sends a negative stopping signal to our immune system, halting our…
Let’s start by refreshing our understanding of how our immune system works (in case you can't recall your high school biology course in perfect detail).…
https://youtu.be/IH6zRK7BivA Every year, thousands of people in the U.S. are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases, such as leukemia or lymphoma, for which a stem cell transplant…
Ilse Hein was diagnosed with multiple myeloma during a hospitalization for pneumonia in 1992 in her hometown of Barrington, Illinois. Encouraged by her local physicians,…
Alley Downing was marking a milestone. She'd finished her last chemotherapy treatment, and to celebrate, she got a crown: a beautiful henna design that rested…
https://youtu.be/IWLrTzQ1rXs Dr. Yi Lin, chair of the Cellular Therapeutics Cross-Disciplinary Group at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, explains how chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy…
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=10155599518427517 Learn more about bone marrow transplants (BMT) and CAR-T therapy with Mohamed A. Kharfan Dabaja, M.D., M.B.A. Dr. Kharfan-Dabaja gives an overview of treatment…
Five years ago, Angie Wilson discovered a small bump on her abdomen while taking a shower. "I didn't think much of it," she tells us.…
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="805"] Although he had just been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, Chris Edgerton was not about to slow down. Instead, the…
Katrina Croghan is Clinical Research Coordinator for the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center assigned to the division of Hematology in Rochester, Minnesota. She is no stranger to the medical…
Many women with a hereditary bleeding or clotting disorder often ask the same question: How does it affect pregnancy and birth? “Pregnancy is a stronger…
Original post from News Network DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 1-year-old has neutropenia, and his neutrophil count is very low (310). He often gets infections, and his…
A local Minnesota native, Jessica Schumacher grew up in Plainview, a small town just outside of Rochester. She first started at Mayo Clinic in 2007…
Original post by Sharon Rosen in the Individualized Medicine Blog Each year, more than 20,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell…
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