{"id":3447,"date":"2022-09-01T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2022-09-01T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:22:29","slug":"blood-cancer-awareness-month-this-is-blood-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/news\/blood-cancer-awareness-month-this-is-blood-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Cancer Awareness Month: This Is Blood Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3448 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/09\/unnamed-7-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/09\/unnamed-7-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/09\/unnamed-7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/09\/unnamed-7-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/09\/unnamed-7-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/09\/unnamed-7-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/09\/unnamed-7.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 1.2 million people worldwide are diagnosed with blood cancer yearly, accounting for roughly 6% of all cancer cases and 720,000 deaths. In the USA alone, that equates to one person diagnosed every ~3 minutes and one death every ~9 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These haematologic cancers are divided into three main subtypes. In order of global prevalence, they are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 20px;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Lymphoma (~50%)<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>:<\/strong> Develops in the lymphatic system<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Leukaemia (~37%)<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>:<\/strong> Located in bone marrow and blood due to excessive abnormal white blood cell production<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Multiple Myeloma (~13%)<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>:<\/strong> Formed by malignant plasma cells, generally in bone marrow\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other variants include Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) and Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN), though they\u2019re among over 100 rarer types of blood cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the mortality numbers and global reach, survival rates have in fact quadrupled since the 1960\u2019s. As Professor Robin Fo\u00e0, Professor of Hematology at &#8220;Sapienza&#8221; University of Rome, says:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe cure rates for patients with haematological malignancies are constantly improving. A close interaction between the clinic and the laboratory is required for a rapid and precise diagnostic and prognostic work-up of patients and for always more personalized and targeted treatment strategies during the follow-up.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But these numbers show we still have a way to go \u2013 which is why <\/span><b>Blood Cancer Awareness Month throughout September<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is so important to educate more people on symptoms and treatments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the UK, for instance, Blood Cancer UK found that over half of adults cannot name any symptoms of blood cancer, which include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 20px;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unexplained weight loss, bruising, bleeding, fever, rash<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lumps or swellings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breathlessness<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extreme night sweats<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persistent, recurrent or severe infections<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joint, bone or stomach pain<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persistent fatigue<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paleness<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside sharing what to look out for, greater awareness will also help to further the research to help beat blood cancers altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples of the latest research include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin: 20px;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current and future therapies for marginal zone Lymphoma <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/touchoncology.com\/lymphoma\/journal-articles\/current-and-future-therapies-for-marginal-zone-lymphoma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">READ NOW<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oral therapies for Multiple Myeloma <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/touchoncology.com\/multiple-myeloma\/journal-articles\/oral-therapies-for-multiple-myeloma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">READ NOW<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.touchoncology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">touchONCOLOGY<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> supports Blood Cancer Awareness Month and its global effort to educate more people on the symptoms and treatments available for blood cancer. Learn about blood cancer by <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/touchoncology.com\/speciality\/haematological-malignancies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">visiting our library<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of video interviews, conference highlights, journal articles, and clinical trial updates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively, you can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/touchoncology.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">get in touch<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn how you can benefit from our educational activities and regularly updated content.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>touchONCOLOGY supports Blood Cancer Awareness Month and its global effort to educate more people on the symptoms and treatments available for blood cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101775,"featured_media":3448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touchmedicalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}