Episode 114: Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (RE...

This week we continue our Pancreatic Cancer series with the two middle categories of non-metastatic disease: borderline resectable and locally advanced. Using the case of a 61-year-old woman with a pancreatic body mass abutting the superior mesenteric artery, we walk through the ...  Show more

This week our pancreatic cancer series moves from diagnosis to management, starting with resectable disease. Using the case of a 68-year-old man with a 2.8 cm adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head, we define what "resectable" actually means, review the operation and the goal of a ...  Show more

Today’s episode is focusing on acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) - the need to know chromosomal translocation, presentation, diagnostic work-up, risk stratifying, treatment, and differentiation syndrome.

Today’s episode is all about AML (acute myeloid leukemia), including the usual presentation, diagnostic work-up, risk stratification (and tricks to remember these), molecular testing, and treatment options for first-line, as well as relapsed/refractory disease.

In this Spotlight series episode on Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Blood Editor, Dr. Selina Luger interviews Drs. Laura Michaelis and Alexander Perl on their paper in the series titled “The fit older adult with acute myeloid leukemia: clinical challenges to providing evidence-based fron ...  Show more