Patient Care Thanks to Clinical Trials, Big Leaps in Lymphoma Treatment By Leslie Orr Dec. 10, 2021 Two major clinical trials are changing the landscape in the most common form of lymphoma.
Patient Care Finding Family and France, Figuratively: One Lymphoma Patient's Stem Cell Transplant Story By Ruth Harper-Rhode Jun. 3, 2021 Jodi Lown has always dreamt of going to France. She had no idea a lymphoma diagnosis would bring France to her, in the form of a stem cell transplant, or that she would find a way to return an active ...
Patient Care Walk This Way: Program on Wilmot Inpatient Unit Encourages Patients to Get Moving By Ruth Harper-Rhode Apr. 23, 2021 Launched by Megan Donovan, RN, the Walk n’ Roll program on Wilmot’s Hematology/Oncology Unit on the seventh floor (WCC7) encourages patients to walk more during their hospitalization.
Research Sometimes Tumors Vanish, but Improvements Still Needed for CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy By Leslie Orr Nov. 19, 2020 Patrick Reagan, M.D., looks at the data on his computer screen and a rare grin spreads across his face. His most recent study results for patients with end-stage mantle cell lymphoma show that an ...
Patient Care CAR T-cell Therapy: 'Research and Amazing Medicine' By Leslie Orr Nov. 18, 2020 In autumn of 2017, Nicole Zaleski-Conine experienced side effects she chalked up to a host of reasons, but in January 2018, the definitive diagnosis came in: follicular lymphoma that transformed into ...
Patient Care CAR T-cell Therapy: Finally, a Milestone to Celebrate By Leslie Orr Nov. 18, 2020 Maxine and Dave Wilson finish each other’s sentences. They feel blessed to have each other, given what Maxine has been through. Then, Maxine was unexpectedly diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in ...
Patient Care CAR T-cell Therapy: The Doctor is a Patient By Leslie Orr Nov. 18, 2020 Patrick Brophy, M.D., physician-in-chief at UR Medicine Golisano Children’s Hospital, says he never looked at his own medical chart. But he knew his health was declining rapidly.
Research Shingles Vaccine Shows Promise in Lymphoma Patients By Leslie Orr Nov. 10, 2020 New research gives a thumbs up to offering the shingles vaccine to lymphoma patients, who were often not eligible in the past.
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 ...
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 ...
