Join JaQuitta Williams for the February edition of Your Health Connection on Jazz 91.9 WCLK, Wednesday, February 17 at 6:00 p.m. We will be talking about potentially life-saving transplants involved in cancer treatment, including bone marrow, stem cell and blood transplants.
Our guest expert is Hematology and Oncology Associate Professor, Dr. Sanjay Jain from the Morehouse School of Medicine, as well as Kalimah Jenkins, a cancer survivor who has experienced transplant therapy.
That’s Your Health Connection from the Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development (CCRTD) at Clark Atlanta University, airing on Jazz 91.9 WCLK, February 17 at 6:00 p.m., exculsively.
Dr. Kimberly Davis with CCRTD sends along these trenchant article links with regard to this subject:
New target for potential blood cancer treatment
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151221111436.htm
Multiple myeloma drug could revolutionize treatment for sickle cell disease
http://www.feinsteininstitute.org/2015/12/multiple-myeloma-drug-could-revolutionize-treatment-for-sickle-cell-disease/
Simple test could improve treatment for biggest Leukemia killer
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/01/simple-blood-test-may-improve-treatment-biggest-leukemia-killer
Study Identifies New Class of Anticancer Compounds for Possible Targeted Therapy in Blood Cancers
https://www.roswellpark.org/media/news/study-identifies-new-class-anticancer-compounds-possible-targeted-therapy-blood-cancers\
Charity's new tissue typing method could revolutionize field of stem cell transplantation
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/304746.php
For more information about the Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development at Clark Atlanta University, click here.