This flyer shows three photos of Tony with friends, at home, and playing guitar in his hospital room

With a Little Help from My Friends

Portland rockers rally around musician’s fight with leukemia. Boxes. Every room was filled with cardboard boxes – a rectangular riot of books, records, photos, tools, kitchen stuff and music...

A better roadmap for beating a deadly leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, is the most common acute blood cancer in adults — and one of the most difficult to treat. Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered a...

Overcoming drug resistance to stop a deadly blood cancer

Cancer researchers have discovered a potential way to make targeted therapy drugs more effective and longer lasting for people with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML. The scientists showed how it is...

Unraveling early events in a life-threatening leukemia

Cancer scientists reveal the first direct evidence that leukemia development depends on the order in which mutations occur. Acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, is the most common blood cancer in adults...

Study overturns basic tenet in leukemia biology

Scientists thought they understood the steps leading to acute myeloid leukemia. But one of the basic tenets in that understanding turns out to be unsound, according to researchers at the OHSU Knight...

Studies reveal new ways to fight a deadly leukemia

One study shows how it may be possible to stop acute myeloid leukemia by targeting a hidden population of cells that support the cancer. Another reveals how AML evolves to evade anti-cancer drugs,...

Fighting a formidable leukemia with an expansive clinical trial

The best available treatment for acute myeloid leukemia is a drug combination established more than 30 years ago. And today less than a third of newly diagnosed AML patients survive beyond five...