blood cancer

Stem-cell, bone marrow transplants score equally for leukemia: Study

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

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.