Acute myeloid leukaemia is the most common type of acute cancer of the blood and bone marrow in adults. AML progresses quickly and only 26 percent of the patients survive longer than five years as resistance against established ...
Feb 23, 2018
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When people think of leukaemia, they usually think of blood cancers that affect children. These mostly come under the category of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia – or ALL – and are different to the group of blood cancers ...
Jan 16, 2018
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Patients with an aggressive form of leukaemia, currently ineligible for any type of targeted therapy, may in fact benefit from some of these new drugs, according to new research by Queen Mary University of London.
Jan 9, 2018
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Researchers from the University of Seville, in collaboration with the Genome Damage and Stability Centre of the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, have recently published a study in the review Nature Communications, ...
Oct 31, 2017
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New research published today uncovers how the blood cancer 'steals' parts of surrounding healthy bone marrow cells to thrive, in work that could help form new approaches to cancer treatment in the future.
Oct 5, 2017
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A new drug that strips cancer cells of their "immortality" could help to treat patients suffering from one of the most aggressive forms of leukaemia.
Aug 8, 2017
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Researchers have identified a new cell mechanism that could lead to a fundamental change in the diagnosis and treatment of leukaemia.
Jul 27, 2017
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Plk1 inhibitors have recently been acknowledged as an innovative therapy for leukaemia by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, a study published in Nature Medicine by researchers from the Spanish National ...
Jul 10, 2017
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An international research team has found a way to improve the anti-cancer effect of a new medicine class called 'Smac mimetics'.
Jun 26, 2017
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A study led by the University of Birmingham has made a breakthrough in the understanding of how different genetic mutations cause acute myeloid leukaemia.
May 23, 2017
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