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The University of Pennsylvania treatment takes a patient's so-called T-cells, crucial sentinels of the immune system, and uses a virus to insert a gene that reprograms the cell into a hybrid that includes properties of T-cells and another immune-system cell called a B-cell.
Gene Treatment Offers Hope in Leukemia Cases Ron Winslow 2011
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The chairman of the Max Cure Foundation is David Plotkin, a financier who lives in Manhattan and Amagansett and was inspired by his 8-year-old son Max's battle with a rare form of B-cell lymphoma.
Children Get In on the Hamptons Parties Marshall Heyman 2011
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We have done an autopsy on the donor and we found she had intravascular B-cell lymphoma.'
A kidney operation changed Robert's life. He got cancer 2011
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Consider Genentech and Biogen Idec's Rituxan, which the FDA approved in 1997 for relapsed or refractory CD20-positive B-cell low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma NHL.
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The incident at the Royal Liverpool University hospital involved organs from a woman who died at another hospital, and was later found to have had a hard-to-identify disease called intravascular B-cell lymphoma.
Transplant patients given kidneys from donor with cancer 2011
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Fludara is a chemotherapy approved to treat B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Sanofi Unit Recalls One Lot of Leukemia Drug Peter Loftus 2012
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“Uncovering its potential may lead to the development of growth factor–like drugs that will improve the intrinsic ability of neurons to regenerate and speed the growth of damaged axons in the body—without the side effects that come with drugs that tamp down T-cell and B-cell interactions.”
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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“Uncovering its potential may lead to the development of growth factor–like drugs that will improve the intrinsic ability of neurons to regenerate and speed the growth of damaged axons in the body—without the side effects that come with drugs that tamp down T-cell and B-cell interactions.”
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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There are multiple subtypes of the B-cell form, with widely varying treatments and prognoses.
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Lymphoma is an immune system cancer, and the B-cell form is a type of the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that strikes more than 65,000 people in the U.S. annually.
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