News tagged with adult leukemia

Immune therapy shows early promise for advanced leukemia

(HealthDay)—An experimental therapy that targets the immune system might offer a new way to treat an often deadly form of adult leukemia, a preliminary study suggests.

Cancer Mar 20, 2013 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Scientists shed new light on mechanisms of T-ALL, a form of leukemia that primarily affects children

Acute lymphatic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer in children under the age of 14 years. With optimum treatment, approximately 75 % of children are currently cured, but the treatment consists of severe chemotherapy ...

Cancer Dec 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Drug combination acts against aggressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia

A two-prong approach combining ibrutinib and rituximab (Rituxin®) to treat aggressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) produced profound responses with minor side effects in a Phase 2 clinical trial at the University of ...

Cancer Dec 10, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Pediatric regime of chemotherapy proves more effective for young adults

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), usually found in pediatric patients, is far more rare and deadly in adolescent and adult patients. According to the National Marrow Donor Program, child ALL patients have a higher than ...

Cancer Jun 18, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Leukemia deadlier for teens, young adults than younger kids: study

(HealthDay) -- Teenagers and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, are more likely to relapse and less likely to survive than younger children with the disease, ...

Cancer Jun 02, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Chemotherapy may influence leukemia relapse: research

The chemotherapy drugs required to push a common form of adult leukemia into remission may contribute to DNA damage that can lead to a relapse of the disease in some patients, findings of a new study suggest.

Cancer Jan 11, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Bedside assessment may provide better outcomes for older cancer patients

In geriatric medicine, the adage that age is just a number holds true. New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center uses a simple assessment tool to determine how well older adults diagnosed with acute myelogenous ...

Cancer Oct 26, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

New protein linked to Alzheimer's disease

After decades of studying the pathological process that wipes out large volumes of memory, scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research discovered a molecule called c-Abl that has a known role in leukemia also ...

Medical research May 24, 2011 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0 |