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Can We Start Using The Word “Cure?” #ASH17

By Andrea Greif | December 12, 2017

Today at the #ASH17 (American Society of Hematology) conference in Atlanta, researchers presented the latest compelling data from thousands of clinical trials, revealing how experimental therapies, or approved therapies being tested in new ways, have worked in treating blood cancer patients. Among the presentations were several hundred projects across a spectrum of diseases that benefited in some way from support from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). While some of the results were preliminary and warrant further study, some of the doctors even dared to utter the word “cure.”