News and Treatment Updates

Here's where you'll find a regularly updated, broad range of articles written by the AAMDSIF team, allied health organizations and news organizations. By staying well-informed, patients and families are practicing a form of self-support that will help them be more effective self-advocates when engaging with health care providers.

SF3B1 Variant in MDS Found to Identify Distinct Disease Entities

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For the first time, an international working group of experts in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) proposed the recognition of the SF3B1 variant as a distinct nosologic entity based on the presence of a non-inheritable genetic mutation that causes the disease.1 SF3B1 mutation…

Cancer and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)—Facing the “C Words”

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By Urvi A. Shah, MD from JAMA Oncology Until now, most people feared a diagnosis with the dreaded “C word”—cancer—owing to its associated physical, emotional, and financial hardships as well as its social stigma. However, the rapid progression of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID…

COVID-19 outcomes in patients with hematologic disease

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To the Editor: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel coronavirus of zoonotic origin that emerged in China at the end of 2019. The infection, named Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), is now spreading worldwide. As of April 16, 2020, the virus…

Against all odds: Unrelated stem cell transplants in coronavirus times

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The COVID-19 crisis has consequences not only for those who have become infected and the doctors and nurses who care for them. The care of other patients is also threatened by the increasing stress that national health systems and societies as a whole are under. Also, cancer has…

Coronavirus 2019: What People With Cancer Need to Know

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Coronavirus 2019: What People With Cancer Need to Know Merry Jennifer Markham, MD, FACP March 25, 2020 · Merry Jennifer Markham, MD, FACP This post is reviewed and updated every day. It was first published on March 3. Merry Jennifer Markham, MD, FACP, is the Interim Chief of the…

Coronavirus: What People with Cancer Should Know

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Coronavirus: What People with Cancer Should Know ON THIS PAGE What is coronavirus, or COVID-19? If I have cancer, am I at higher risk of getting or dying from COVID-19? If I have cancer, how can I protect myself? I receive cancer treatment at a medical facility. What should I do…

Stuck Inside? Come Hang Out With The Mighty Community!

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Join The Mighty’s staff and community for a series of events designed to put the SOCIAL in social distancing. We’ve got writing workshops, fun events for kids, interactive Facebook Lives, and more! Check out the schedule (con't)

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