Unite to Fight Blood Cancer: The Vital Role of Ethnic Minority Stem Cell Donors
In this video, Antoinette, a mother of two suffering from incurable blood cancer, shares her struggle to find a stem cell donor for nine years. She has undergone eight different types of chemotherapy, and her myeloma has spread to her spine, causing 13 spinal fractures. While a stem cell transplant won’t cure her, it would […]
Autologous Stem Cell Transplant: Benefits & Risks
An autologous stem cell transplant is a medical procedure that involves taking stem cells from the body of a person, processing and storing them, and then reinfusing them back into the same person’s body. This procedure has been used to treat various kinds of illnesses, including blood cancer and other diseases of the immune system. […]
Angiocrine Bioscience Announces it has been awarded a $15M Grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for AB-205 Phase 3 Clinical Trial
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Angiocrine Bioscience, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company today announced that the California Institute for Regeneration Medicine (CIRM) has approved investing $15M in the Phase 3 registration study AB-205-301 (E-CELERATE), a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of AB-205 in adults with lymphoma undergoing high-dose chemotherapy (HDT) and autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (AHCT). AB-205 […]
Aflac and Be The Match partner to help diversify the National Blood Stem Cell Donor Registry and improve health equity
COLUMBUS, Ga. and MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Highlighting its 27-year commitment to children and families facing childhood cancer and sickle cell disease (SCD), Aflac, the number one provider of supplemental health insurance in the U.S.1 and Be The Match®, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, which has helped facilitate more than 111,000 […]
Autologous Stem Cell Transplants for Blood Cancer Patients
This animated video explains the purpose and procedure of Autologous Stem Cell Transplants for blood cancer patients. Video Transcript: Autologous stem cell transplants are a type of treatment for certain blood cancers that require very high doses of chemotherapy or radiation to treat their disease. Chemotherapy or chemo may kill cancer cells, but it also […]