Blood Cancer

Haematological malignancies

Hematologic malignancies are forms of cancer that begins within the cells of blood-forming tissue, like the bone marrow, or in the cells of the immune system.

Examples of hematologic cancer are acute and chronic Leukemia, lymphomas, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndromes. Myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs, are hematologic cancers that arise from malignant hematopoietic myeloid progenitor cells in the bone marrow, such as the precursor cells of red cells, platelets and granulocytes. Included in the MPN disease spectrum are essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia Vera and myelofibrosis. This scientific session will focus on all types of common or rare blood cancers such as acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia hairy cell leukemia (HCL), large granular lymphocytic leukemia (LGL), t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and Hodgkin lymphoma, Multiple myeloma, Childhood Leukemia and Myelodysplastic–Myeloproliferative diseases.