An international research study involving numerous institutions has successfully identified the gene expression signature for Burkitt lymphoma. The discovery, which is reported in the June 8 ...

Burkitt lymphoma occurs in other countries, including Latin America and, though rare, the United States, but it is most common in equatorial Africa. Dr. Denis Burkitt, the Irish surgeon and missionary ...

Hollywood legend, Jeff Bridges, announced his diagnosis of lymphoma. This 'liquid tumor' is still a mystery to the public. Here are 5 key things to know about lymphoma.

Burkitt lymphoma is the most aggressive type of lymphoma, which is a cancer that begins in cells of the immune system. It is more common in equatorial Africa than in Western countries.

As a result, c-MYC deregulation alone cannot convert normal cells into cancer cells. In Burkitt lymphoma, the apoptosis induction of elevated c-MYC expression must be overcome by additional ...

Treatment advances have helped improve survival of Burkitt lymphoma, a highly aggressive cancer, but not among the elderly, patients at a late stage, or black people. A new study uses those ...

The cumulative incidence of death related to Burkitt lymphoma was 37.4% for patients aged 20 to 39 years at diagnosis, 48.4% for those aged 40 to 59 years, 55.3% for patients aged 60 to 79 years ...

Few trials in Burkitt lymphoma have included substantial numbers of elderly patients. We strongly advocate for specific clinical trials of intensive chemotherapeutic regimens enrolling larger ...

The article by Olszewski et al entitled “Burkitt Lymphoma International Prognostic Index” (J Clin Oncol 10.1200/JCO.20.03288) was published online January 27, 2021, with errors. In the Affiliation ...

News tagged with burkitt lymphoma. Date. 6 hours 12 hours 1 day 3 ... Some patients with aggressive lymphomas face a rare but clinically challenging prognosis when their cancer spreads to the ...

Burkitt’s lymphomas (BLs) acquire consistent point mutations in a conserved domain of Myc, Myc Box I. We report that the enhanced transforming activity of BL-associated Myc mutants can be ...