Dr. Imran Ahmed M.D.

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  Each year, Leukemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand (LBC) sponsors their Blood Cancer Patient Forum. They invite speakers to bring them news about such topics as treatment advances and management of cancer from a fully developed psycho-social perspective. Essentially, they dish up good old-fashioned...

• Breaking News on the Treatment of Follicular Lymphoma

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• How Dogs Are Helping with Lymphoma Research

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• The Promising Future of Gene Therapy and Lymphoma

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