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...Watchful waiting is an approach that involves closely monitoring a person's condition without giving treatment until symptoms appear or change. This may...

...Radiation therapy is a type of treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells. Radiation therapy may use the...

...Leukapheresis is a procedure to separate and collect white blood cells from the blood. Leukapheresis may be used as a treatment for...

...Treatment for blood cancer can last many months or years, depending on the type of blood cancer and how well it responds...

...A stem cell transplant is a procedure that is coupled with high doses of chemotherapy. It may be used to treat certain...

...Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that aims to boost the body’s own immune system to fight cancer cells. By harnessing the...

...Targeted therapies are cancer treatments that stop or slow the growth and spread of cancer. They do this by interfering with specific...

...Chemotherapy, or chemo, is the use of drugs to stop cancer cells. Chemotherapy is used to treat many types of blood cancer...

...Researchers continue to search for new ways to treat blood cancer. Emerging treatments for blood cancer can generally be grouped into the...

...Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)  is a type of cancer that develops from lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell. Lymphomas and leukemias are...

...Multiple myeloma occurs when plasma cells in the bone marrow grow out of control. When they become cancerous, tumors can form in...

...Many people with certain blood cancers receive similar kinds of treatment. However, each person's exact treatment is based on the unique features...

...Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are a group of blood diseases. They develop from overactive blood cells in the bone marrow. The different forms...

...Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are blood cancers that arise from abnormal blood cells in the bone marrow. There are various forms of MDS...