Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA | Authors

February 02, 2021

Unprecedented efforts from researchers and pharmaceutical engineers have brought about safe, effective vaccines, in record development times; now the focus must be on a federally coordinated program to administer those injections in the most efficient manner possible.

January 12, 2021

The 2020 American Society of Hematology Meeting and Exposition included several exciting presentations and promising data for patients with various hematologic malignncies.

November 13, 2020

Accurate and well maintained patient-level data is needed to gather and formulate real-world evidence that is necessary to optimize existing treatment and shape future treatment for patients with hematological malignancies.

September 22, 2020

July 15, 2020

ONCOLOGY® Editor in chief Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA discusses both the positive and negative changes that have come about because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 13, 2020

Editor in chief Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA discusses the difficulties of treating and caring for patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 14, 2019

In this article, we present a case of a patient with relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma who responded to salvage chemotherapy incorporating brentuximab vedotin, a novel agent.

September 15, 2015

June 15, 2010

Querfeld et al have written a comprehensive evaluation of primary cutaneous and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). The important similarities between them are outlined in the article, for example tumor cells expressing the CD30 antigen for both subtypes. In addition, important differences such as the wide spectrum of CD30+ lymphoproliferative disorders of the skin and the large differences in outcomes of the primary cutaneous vs systemic types of ALCL are discussed. Other important differences include expression of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) protein. The ALK protein is activated most frequently through the nonrandom t(2;5) chromosome translocation, resulting in fusion of the nucleophosim (NPM) gene located at 5q35 to 2p23 and encoding the receptor tyrosine kinase, ALK. Most patients with primary cutaneous ALCL are ALK-negative, yet their 5-year disease-free survival rate is > 90%. Systemic ALCL is divided into ALK-positive and ALK-negative cases. Patients with systemic ALCL that is ALK-positive have a much higher 5-year survival rate of 70%, compared with a rate of 49% for those with systemic ALCL that is ALK-negative.[1]

November 30, 2008

Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a unique B-cell lymphoma characterized by a high proliferation rate and cytogenetic changes related to c-myc proto-oncogene overexpression. Burkitt lymphoma is a highly aggressive B-cell lymphoma that is most frequently seen in children and young adults in endemic areas.