An international team of scientists has uncovered one of the mechanisms explaining how some leukemias evade treatment by changing their appearance and identity.
Oct 31, 2022
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Patients with acute myeloid leukemia, the most common type of adult blood cancer, show large-scale genomic mutations and altered DNA folding patterns that could help identify potential therapeutic targets, according to a ...
Oct 28, 2022
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Endothelial cells—the cells that line blood vessels—grown alongside leukemia cells become corrupted and rescue the cancer cells from many chemotherapy drugs, a study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators found.
Oct 19, 2022
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Babies with leukemia could get an array of new treatments after scientists used genetic engineering to reproduce a gene defect found in the disease.
Oct 7, 2022
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Many drug-resistant tumors have dysfunctional metabolism of ceramide, a metabolite that promotes cell death.
Sep 21, 2022
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Nearly one in four families of pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) enrolled in a clinical trial experienced food insecurity, and almost half of the families eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...
Sep 16, 2022
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Elective cesarean section (CS) is associated with an increased risk for leukemia in offspring, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online Aug. 24 in Hematological Oncology.
Sep 15, 2022
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Up to three quarters of patients receiving cancer chemotherapy suffer from "chemo brain"—a long-term side effect that makes it harder to remember things, maintain attention, and learn new information. When it strikes children, ...
Sep 13, 2022
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Scientists have created a roadmap of the genetic mutations present in the most common childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital study is the first to supply a comprehensive ...
Sep 1, 2022
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By using drugs currently used to treat other diseases, scientists hope they will help children with leukemia suffer fewer long-term aftereffects from their treatment.
Aug 31, 2022
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