Miriam Sevy was a force of nature. That is how Dr. Steve Kussick, president of the board for the all-volunteer, Seattle-based Burkitt’s Lymphoma Fund for Africa, remembers the nonprofit’s founder. A ...

A study has found strong similarities between children with endemic Burkitt lymphoma — an aggressive cancer that attacks the body's defense system and children with silent malaria infection. Endemic ...

International Rare Cancers Initiative Multicenter Randomized Phase II Trial of Cisplatin and Fluorouracil Versus Carboplatin and Paclitaxel in Advanced Anal Cancer: InterAAct Burkitt lymphoma is an ...

In the first broad genetic landscape mapped of a Burkitt lymphoma tumor, scientists identified 70 mutations, including several that had not previously been associated with cancer and a new one that ...

Burkitt's lymphoma is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma that occurs in children and adults and is largely curable with the use of intensive and toxic chemotherapy. Current treatments are less effective ...

A 72-year-old patient with Burkitt lymphoma was successfully treated with nivolumab after standard-of-care chemotherapy failed. A new case report is raising the possibility that nivolumab (Opdivo) may ...

Adult patients with a type of cancer known as Burkitt lymphoma had excellent long-term survival rates -- upwards of 90 percent -- following treatment with low-intensity chemotherapy regimens, ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Among the five patients with BCP LBL, the diagnosis was established by a combination of typical histopathology, FAB L1/L2 cytomorphology and ...

Burkitt lymphoma is a highly aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma whose diagnosis relies on integrated clinical, pathological, and imaging assessments. Established diagnostic criteria include ...

Burkitt lymphoma is an extremely fast growing form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that originates from a subgroup of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system. Now, researchers at the Max ...

'Dance Moms' star Abby Lee Miller is now cancer-free and finished her 10th and final round of chemotherapy as of April 2019. Abby has been chronicling her treatment for Burkitt lymphoma ever since she ...