Blood cancers start when blood cells become cancerous and disrupt red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets, often beginning in bone marrow. The main blood cancer types include leukemia, ...

SAN ANTONIO – Thanks to efforts from doctors, researchers, health care providers and nonprofits such as Blood Cancer United, certain types of blood cancers are no longer the terminal diagnoses that ...

Blood cancer impairs the bone marrow's ability to produce healthy blood cells. While these cancers are serious, the growing knowledge in medical science has improved survival rates. Understanding the ...

More than 100 years ago, Dr. Karl Landsteiner discovered that not all red blood cells are alike. He found that, when different people's blood was mixed, it would often clump up and curdle, destroying ...

It develops from the abnormal multiplication of T cells, or T-lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell essential for immune system function. The specific treatment course and prognosis for T-cell ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...

Blood cells carry a deep evolutionary history. A new analysis suggests their earliest ancestors were macrophage-like cells inherited from single-celled life.