Oncology & Cancer
Breastfeeding may offset leukemia risk
Breastfeeding could help reduce the risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, according to a WA-led study.
Mar 20, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Measuring treatment response proves to be a powerful tool for guiding leukemia treatment
Measuring the concentration of leukemia cells in patient bone marrow during the first 46 days of chemotherapy should help boost survival of young leukemia patients by better matching patients with the right intensity of chemotherapy. ...
Mar 20, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists trace genomic evolution of high-risk leukemia
By genomic sequencing of leukemia cells from relapsed patients at different stages, scientists have discovered key details of how acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells mutate to survive chemotherapy. These mutations enable ...
Mar 19, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that when a certain aggressive leukemia is causing havoc in the body, the solution may be to force the cancer cells to grow up and behave.
Mar 16, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Genetically engineered immunotoxin shows early promise in patients with B-cell malignancies
Almost all patients with a group of blood cancers called B-cell malignancies have two prominent "fingerprints" on the surface of leukemia and lymphoma cancers, called CD22 and CD19, Vallera explained. To develop the drug, ...
Mar 13, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Childhood leukemia study reveals disease subtypes, new treatment option
A new study of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a blood cancer that primarily affects young children, has revealed that the disease has two distinct subtypes, and provides preliminary evidence that about 13 percent of ...
Mar 9, 2015
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Genetics
Chromosomal rearrangement is the key to progress against aggressive infant leukemia
The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital—Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project reports that a highly aggressive form of leukemia in infants has surprisingly few mutations beyond the chromosomal rearrangement ...
Mar 6, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Gene variant and risk and severity of nerve disorder linked to cancer drug
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who had a certain gene variant experienced a higher incidence and severity of peripheral neuropathy after receiving treatment with the cancer drug vincristine, according to a study ...
Feb 24, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Could there be a gleevec for brain cancer?
The drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) is well known not only for its effectiveness against chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but also for the story behinds its development. The drug was specifically ...
Feb 9, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
New opportunity to treat drug-resistant leukemia discovered
A study led by researchers at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM and Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Central Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center, in close collaboration ...
Feb 9, 2015
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