Stem-cell, bone marrow transplants score equally for leukemia: Study
Mon, 02/01/2010 - 16:07 by Jamie Anderson
![]() Berlin, February 1 -- Leukemia patients who undergo stem-cell transplant tend to live just as long as their counterparts who undergo the more invasive procedure, a bone marrow transplant, German scientists have found. |
NBA’s great Abdul-Jabbar has rare blood cancer
Wed, 11/11/2009 - 10:37 by Kangna Agarwal
![]() New York, November 11 -- The NBA's all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed Tuesday that he is battling with a rare form of blood cancer called chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, he insisted that his prognosis is encouraging. |