The hybrid retreat showcased the latest gastric cancer, blood cancer, pediatric sarcoma, glioblastoma, breast cancer, and immune micro-environment research.
Join Team DCI and "Light the Night" Oct. 21 to support blood cancer awareness and research. The virtual program includes a ceremony, lantern raising, social celebration & fireworks.
The new Duke Blood Cancer Center opens up the opportunity to transition some cancer treatments from the inpatient to the outpatient setting and the infusion room is open every day.
A study co-led at Duke SoM & Mass. General Hospital demonstrates benefits of early palliative care for high-risk leukemia patients. Results published in JAMA. Thomas LeBlanc, MD, is co-lead author.
Flags were lowered to half-staff today across Duke for Neil Spector, MD, physician-scientist, mentor, advocate, friend, husband, and father who passed away on June 14.
Harry Erba, MD, PhD, David Rizzieri, MD, and Thomas LeBlanc, MD, discuss the benefits of therapy for the great majority of older acute myeloid leukemia patients.
Hematologist-oncologist Suzanne Kirby, MD, PhD, will lead the way for Duke Cancer Institute’s Wake County teams as an honorary captain at Light the Night.
When Duke Cancer Institute researcher Christopher Pirozzi, PhD, was an intern doing stem cell research in Australia, he spotted a child’s mobile of a ...
Adding an investigational antibody to the chemotherapy rituximab appears to restore its cancer-killing properties in certain leukemia patients with a ...
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), the world's largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer, recently awarded grants to two Duke Ca...
A deadly feature of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is its invasion of the central nervous system. ALL in the central nervous system is very diffic...
Sylvia Foushee, 71, was due for an annual physical. It was early September 2016. A native of Bahama, North Carolina, Sylvia visited her Duke primary c...
Celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary, in May 2016 Greg Ryan and his wife, Terry, took off for a dream vacation to Kauai, a Hawaiian island boast...
The 2017 Light The Night walk, hosted by The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), will take place Saturday, Oct. 28, at the Booth Ampitheatre in Cary,...
Man and Woman of the Year candidates compete for the title by raising funds in honor of two local pediatric survivors, a boy and a girl. Boy of the Ye...
They say it takes no longer than a blink of an eye to “size” up another person. At nearly four-feet, five-inches tall, Barbara Flink, 63, has endured ...
Hematologic oncologist Danielle Brander, MD, has signed on as honorary team captain to lead Team Duke Cancer Institute at this year's The Leukemia & L...
Jennifer Goins, a program coordinator for Duke Department of Immunology, has been nominated to compete in The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 20...
Leukemia patients who received frequent transfusions had short stays in hospice, suggesting that transfusion dependence presents a barrier to end-of-l...
Radiation oncology nurse Nicole Kenney, BSN, RN, OCN, CNIII, and Team Noreen are raising funds for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s annual Light Th...
Pat Luke, a volunteer with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, had walked in the society’s Light the Night fundraiser for 16 years — long before she be...
In J.K. Rowling’s 1999 Harry Potter novel, “Prisoner of Azkaban,” professor Albus Dumbledore foresees the tough times ahead and reminds the inhabitant...
After two visits to a local ENT doctor who performed two biopsies – both benign – and then a follow-up visit to her primary care doctor, Joy Wood was ...
You're invited to Be The Match on Friday, March 17, at 8 a.m. at Duke Hospital Medical Library on the 8th floor of Duke North in Durham, North Carolin...
As an oncology recreation therapist, Tiffany Atkinson, MS, LRT, knows first-hand that “bouncing back” from the sometimes destructive effects of cancer...
Duke Raleigh Hospital president and leukemia survivor David Zaas, MD, and his wife Aimee Zaas, MD, an infectious diseases specialist, have signed on a...
New Hampshire native Nicole Kenney, 31, already had one undergraduate degree under her belt when she applied in 2009 for enrollment in Duke University...