Children with Down syndrome (DS) are 20 times more likely to develop leukemia. Not only are they more likely to develop the disease, they have higher rates of relapse, are more likely to experience negative side effects from ...
Aug 30, 2022
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, among others, have studied the benefit of adding an established drug as a novel targeted therapy in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The results suggest that the drug hydroxyurea ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common cancer affecting children. The T-ALL form of leukemia that emerges from early T lineage cells has a poorer prognosis than B-lineage ALL. The prognosis for relapsed T-ALL ...
Jun 20, 2022
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More effective therapies are needed for acute leukemia, particularly for people over 50 years of age at diagnosis, according to research published today by the Medical Journal of Australia.
Mar 14, 2022
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Common maternal infections during pregnancy, such as urinary and respiratory tract infections were linked to a child developing leukemia, a new study has found. But the increase in overall risk was small given the rarity ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge found that in children with neuroblastoma—a cancer of immature nerve cells—treatment with platinum chemotherapy caused changes to the genome ...
May 28, 2021
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Australian scientists have found what could prove to be a new and effective way to treat a particularly aggressive blood cancer in children.
May 28, 2021
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WEHI researchers have discovered why some leukemia cells are resistant to new "SMAC-mimetic' anti-cancer agents, a finding which could improve the use of these drugs in the clinic.
Apr 15, 2021
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Death from infection—the leading cause of death for patients with a common type of leukemia—is linked to specific gene mutations, a new study has found.
Apr 8, 2021
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T-cellacute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a cancer of the blood that affects mainly children, but also less frequently adults. In adults, although the response to treatment might be initially positive, relapses are common ...
Dec 17, 2020
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