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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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).…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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[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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…