Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare and aggressive disease with historically poor outcomes. It s a bone marrow blood cancer that has a unique clinical predisposition to affecting the skin – so that makes it kind of unique compared to the other myeloid diseases said Naveen Pemmaraju, MD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
It has been historically misunderstood, Pemmaraju told
MedPage Today. For years the disease known as BPDCN had many different names, including natural killer cell leukemia/lymphoma, and only with the discovery that the disease is derived from plasmacytoid dendritic cells was the term established as blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm by the World Health Organization in 2008, and listed as its own entity in 2016.
By Alexa Rodriguez
Dec 18, 2020
Pediatric patients at a Texas cancer treatment and research hospital received a surprise visit from some pretty cool guests on Thursday.
In a video posted to Twitter by CBS News, Batman and Superman can be seen rappelling down The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and waving to the children through their windows.
While the pediatric patients were apparently very pleased with the surprise visit, so were the employees.
Photo: CBS News Twitter
By Alexa Rodriguez
Dec 18, 2020
Pediatric patients at a Texas cancer treatment and research hospital received a surprise visit from some pretty cool guests on Thursday.
In a video posted to Twitter by CBS News, Batman and Superman can be seen rappelling down The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and waving to the children through their windows.
While the pediatric patients were apparently very pleased with the surprise visit, so were the employees.
Photo: CBS News Twitter
By Alexa Rodriguez
Dec 18, 2020
Pediatric patients at a Texas cancer treatment and research hospital received a surprise visit from some pretty cool guests on Thursday.
In a video posted to Twitter by CBS News, Batman and Superman can be seen rappelling down The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and waving to the children through their windows.
While the pediatric patients were apparently very pleased with the surprise visit, so were the employees.
Photo: CBS News Twitter
By Alexa Rodriguez
Dec 18, 2020
Pediatric patients at a Texas cancer treatment and research hospital received a surprise visit from some pretty cool guests on Thursday.
In a video posted to Twitter by CBS News, Batman and Superman can be seen rappelling down The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and waving to the children through their windows.
While the pediatric patients were apparently very pleased with the surprise visit, so were the employees.
Photo: CBS News Twitter