leukemia

Looking at 3-year-old James McCarthy now, it’s hard to believe the dire situation he was facing in August 2018.

A 15-year-old girl battling cancer experienced quite a memorable moment on Friday when she was surprised by her idol, Chicago Cubs’ Javier “Javy” Báez.

A 15-year-old Chicago Cubs fan battling cancer met her idol, Javier Baez on Friday. Her special surprise was thanks to the Cubs and Advocate Children’s Hospital. NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria reports. 

Expanding access to a promising but costly treatment, Medicare said Wednesday it will cover for some blood cancers a breakthrough gene therapy that revs up a patient’s own immune cells to destroy malignancies. Officials said Medicare will cover CAR-T cell therapies for certain types of lymphoma and leukemia. The cost of the treatments can run to hundreds of thousands of...

In 2014, Gabby DeFilippo from Livingston, NJ was diagnosed with leukemia and has bravely endured 2.5 years of daily treatment.

After nearly 40 years of protection, the U.S. Secret Service has ended its detail for President George H.W. Bush, known by the code name “Timberwolf.”

George H.W. Bush’s granddaughter on Sunday remembered his rich life — and his emotional final moments as she told him to say “hi to Ganny” in heaven.

Robert “Bob” McNair, billionaire founder and owner of the Houston Texans, has died. He was 81.

A meeting in Mount Greenwood Wednesday night saw residents expressing concerns after a spike in pediatric cancer cases.

A new government cancer map shows that rates of childhood cancer are highest in the Northeast United States and lowest in the South, NBC News reported. Rates of pediatric lymphoma and brain cancer are higher in the Northeast while leukemia is more common in the West, according to the map. It isn’t clear why the rates vary and, since pediatric...

Nearly half of U.S. cancer doctors who responded to a survey say they’ve recently recommended medical marijuana to patients, although most say they don’t know enough about medicinal use. The results reflect how marijuana policy in some states has outpaced research, the study authors said. All 29 states with medical marijuana programs allow doctors to recommend it to cancer...

Rob Stafford shares the story of a little girl who was diagnosed with leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant. Here’s how you can help Make a Difference for her family.

By the time she was 8, Mya ran circles around her brothers. Then suddenly her energy disappeared, and doctors delivered the news: She was diagnosed with leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant.

U.S. regulators have approved the first targeted drug for certain patients with an aggressive form of leukemia. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the drug for adults with acute myeloid leukemia who have a genetic mutation called FLT3. Also OK’d was a test to identify those patients. The drug, Rydapt, known chemically as midostaurin, is used along with...

Erika Barber of suburban Arlington Heights said she watched in horror in early 2009 as her stepfather, William Ruppel, repeatedly jolted in the final six hours of his life.

A North Texas girl is taking her cancer fight to Washington D.C. Nine-year-old Sadie Keller is calling on Vice President Joe Biden to help make childhood cancer research a national priority.

Oksana Chusovitina will compete at her seventh Olympics when she goes to Rio de Janeiro, becoming the oldest Olympic female gymnast in history at age 41. Chusovitina, back representing her native Uzbekistan, is an anachronism in an age when gymnasts enter major competitions at 16, and most are teenagers.

After taking down one of the best teams in NBA history, LeBron James had a heartfelt moment with one of the game’s most popular sideline reporters.

One of the biotech companies run by Martin Shkreli, the reviled drug price-gouger charged with securities fraud last week, was informed Wednesday that its stock will be delisted by Nasdaq because of Shkreli’s arrest and other issues. Meanwhile, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. also is dealing with the abrupt resignation of its accounting firm and a void left by its firing of...