Why I Stopped Being A “Good” Cancer Patient
“You are allergic to your oral chemotherapy,” explains my oncology team at a recent appointment. “We are going to try a newer drug,” I am on my fourth attempt to find an oral treatment suitable for both my body and my cancer, so that I can maintain a remission that took three years and a stem cell transplant to achieve. “We want to get ahead of it before it gets ahead of us.” In my headphones, Weezer achingly croons, “Say it ain’t so, your drug is a heartbreaker.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Since being diagnosed with phase three chronic myeloid leu...
Source: TIME: Health - February 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Walela Nehanda Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news

Advanced Spatial Tools Map Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niches
New technologies and archival tissue biopsy samples enable exploration of changes in the bone marrow as people age. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - January 15, 2024 Category: Science Tags: News News & Opinion Source Type: news

Diagnostic errors tied to patient harm
Diagnostic errors, including those from radiology among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU), are common, according to a study published January 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers led by Andrew Auerbach, MD, from the University of California, San Francisco found that a missed or delayed diagnosis took place in 23% of patients in their study, with 17% of these errors causing temporary or permanent harm to patients. Such errors included delayed ordering of a CT angiogram (CTA) and incorrect management of abdominal CT findings. “Problems with choosing and interpreting tes...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - January 10, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news

PET/CT scans ‘crucial’ in patients with NK/T-cell lymphoma
PET/CT has significant advantages over conventional methods for lesion detection and staging in patients with natural killer/T-cell lymphoma, according to a study published December 18 in Heliyon.In a retrospective analysis, a team in Taiyuan, China, found that F-18 FDG-PET/CT was superior for analyzing imaging manifestations of NK/T-cell lymphoma and suggested that the scans can improve treatment plans for patients.“F-18 FDG-PET/CT scanning is crucial in identifying tumor lesions, determining staging, and devising treatment strategies for individuals diagnosed with NK/T-cell lymphoma,” wrote lead author Huixia Geng, M...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 22, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Radiation Oncology/Therapy Source Type: news

Charting the Course: From Young Adult Leukemia Patient to Oncologist
(MedPage Today) -- "Would you like to have a bone marrow biopsy today or tomorrow?" These are the only words I remember coming from the oncologist who I had just met in the emergency department (ED). I was in my second year of medical school and... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - December 3, 2023 Category: Hematology Source Type: news

Woman's test to save mom's life reveals she also has cancer
"You have cancer." Those three words change a person's life forever. Kristin Draper, a 59-year-old flight attendant from Annapolis, Maryland, got the news everyone dreads in early 2021. After a routine check-up found a low platelet count, she was sent for a bone marrow biopsy. This confirmed that…#kristindraper #annapolis #maryland #danielledraper #danielle #clevelandclinic #hodgkinlymphomas #abvd #adriamycin #scan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How COVID-19 Changes the Immune System
If the COVID-19 pandemic has done one thing, it’s made us all more familiar with some of the important players in the immune system. Antibodies, B cells, and T cells are among the best known parts of the body’s response to a virus like SARS-CoV-2, but they don’t act alone. In a paper published on August 18 in the journal Cell, scientists report that innate immune cells—a critical part of the immune system activated to battle COVID-19—remain altered for at least a year after infection. The finding suggests that these cells may play a role in some of the lingering symptoms associated with Lon...
Source: TIME: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

What are Presentations of Neuroblastoma?
Discussion Abdominal pain is a very common problem with abdominal masses being somewhat less common. If one considers how frequently patients have abdominal pain due to constipation and that it often presents with a fecal mass, both of these are commonplace. Abdominal and pelvic organs are sometimes mistaken for masses also. As the abdominal and pelvic cavities are large, tumors often need to be quite large before they cause functional problems and/or can be palpated on physical examination. A review of abdominal masses can be found here. A review of recurrent abdominal pain can be found here. A review of acute abdominal p...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 27, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

How a Dedicated Bone Marrow Biopsy Clinic Eased Wait Times
(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- A VA health center successfully streamlined the path to bone marrow biopsy by shifting the procedures away from interventional radiology (IR) to a new dedicated bone marrow biopsy clinic. The change took almost... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - September 19, 2022 Category: Hematology Source Type: news

Bone Marrow Biopsy Value Limited in Follicular Lymphoma Response Assessment
(MedPage Today) -- Bone marrow biopsy (BMB) provided little information for response assessment in clinical trials of follicular lymphoma (FL) and should be eliminated from clinical trial requirements and diagnostic guidelines, authors of a large... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - July 10, 2022 Category: Hematology Source Type: news

Severe lead poisoning caused by ayurvedic medicine - Scherbaum CR, Frank T, Su árez V.
We report the case of a young patient who presented to our emergency department with reduced general condition, anemia, and crampy abdominal pain. A previous inpatient workup including abdominal imaging and bone marrow aspiration had not yielde... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 2, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news

What Are Some Mast Cell Disorders?
Discussion Mast cells (MCs) were first discovered by Paul Ehrlich in 1878. Previously in 1869, Nettleship and Tay described a toddler with chronic urticaria and a brown skin lesion which is believed to be the first reported case of mastocytosis. Urticaria pigmentosa was a term first used by Sangster in 1878, and in 1936 the term mastocytosis was used. “Mast cells first evolved 500 million years ago in Ascidians (sea squirts), providing host innate immunity against bacteria and parasites….MCs gained additional functions regulating inflammation, wound healing, coagulation, adaptive immunity and acute allergic res...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - February 21, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Gene Differences Could Have Black Patients Undergoing Unnecessary Biopsies
WEDNESDAY, June 30, 2021 -- A gene variant may be driving high rates of unnecessary bone marrow biopsies in Black Americans, researchers say. The variant is responsible for lower white blood cell levels in some healthy Black people, the... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - June 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

MarrowQuant: A new digital-pathology tool
(Ecole Polytechnique F é d é rale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists have developed a digital pathology tool for quantifying bone marrow compartments in standard histological sections. Named 'MarrowQuant', the software makes it possible to examine bone marrow biopsies as well as to re-examine historical collections of bone-marrow samples and even old clinical trials. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news