Jun 9, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Courtney Ketchum. Urbana, Ill. – When a patient battling blood cancer needs a bone marrow transplant, their chances of survival are very low unless a match is found. Unfortunately, the chance of an immediate familial match is only 30%. Courtney Ketchum, a...
Jun 30, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A method known as CAR-T therapy has been used successfully in patients with blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. It modifies a patient’s own T-cells by adding a piece of an antibody that recognizes unique features on the surface of cancer...
Jun 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
While the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign slogan, “Fighting Illini,” is most commonly used to describe the university’s athletics, it’s taken on a whole new meaning within the laboratories of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL). Having battled cancer...