Sarah T. Diepstraten

4 weeks ago | medicalxpress.com | John La Marca |Sarah T. Diepstraten |Sadie Harley |Alexander Pol

Beloved Australian actor, Magda Szubanski, has revealed she's been diagnosed with a "very rare, very aggressive, very serious" blood cancer called mantle cell lymphoma. In a post on social media on Thursday, Szubanski said she would be starting treatment in a few weeks for the stage 4 cancer, which she called "one of the nasty ones, unfortunately."So, what is mantle cell lymphoma? And how is it treated? What is mantle cell lymphoma?

May 6, 2024 | theconversation.com | John La Marca |Sarah T. Diepstraten

Stopping cells from dividing into new cells is one way to fight cancer. This is how the drug abemaciclib works.