Miriam Sevy was a force of nature. That is how Dr. Steve Kussick, president of the board for the all-volunteer, Seattle-based Burkitt’s Lymphoma Fund for Africa, remembers the nonprofit’s founder. A ...

Burkitt's lymphoma is a rare and aggressive blood cancer characterized by a translocation of the MYC gene. It occurs most ...

A study has found strong similarities between children with endemic Burkitt lymphoma — an aggressive cancer that attacks the body's defense system and children with silent malaria infection. Endemic ...

Burkitt's lymphoma is a highly aggressive blood cancer that primarily affects children and young adults. It is driven by a ...

Burkitt's lymphoma is a rarely encountered, aggressive B-cell lymphoma that is highly curable in children and young adults. In middle-aged and older adults, however, administering curative therapy may ...

In the first broad genetic landscape mapped of a Burkitt lymphoma tumor, scientists identified 70 mutations, including several that had not previously been associated with cancer and a new one that ...

A 72-year-old patient with Burkitt lymphoma was successfully treated with nivolumab after standard-of-care chemotherapy failed. A new case report is raising the possibility that nivolumab (Opdivo) may ...

Adult patients with a type of cancer known as Burkitt lymphoma had excellent long-term survival rates -- upwards of 90 percent -- following treatment with low-intensity chemotherapy regimens, ...

6-year-old Naula Kamondi's father traveled miles from their Uganda home to get her cancer care; we visit nearly a year later May 18, 2015 • By Mary Engel / Fred Hutch News Service Editor's note: Fred ...

Burkitt lymphoma is an extremely fast growing form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that originates from a subgroup of white blood cells called B lymphocytes of the immune system. Now, researchers at the Max ...

'Dance Moms' star Abby Lee Miller is now cancer-free and finished her 10th and final round of chemotherapy as of April 2019. Abby has been chronicling her treatment for Burkitt lymphoma ever since she ...