Researchers led by a UCLA bioengineer have developed a therapy—based on two types of cells joined into a single unit—that could help strengthen existing treatments for acute myeloid leukemia. One of the cells is a blood ...
Oct 30, 2018
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Researchers from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa have developed a promising targeted strategy to treat chemotherapy-resistant acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and a diagnostic test to determine which AML patients ...
Oct 22, 2018
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A Wilmot Cancer Institute study uncovers how a single gene could be at fault in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one of the deadliest cancers. The breakthrough gives researchers renewed hope that a gene-targeted therapy could ...
Oct 15, 2018
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Geneticists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a previously unknown cell growth mechanism that makes a wide range of cancers resistant to rapamycin and related drugs. The finding offers the promise of ...
Sep 12, 2018
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have unraveled the origins and identified mutations associated with a perplexing form of acute leukemia. The landmark study appears today as an advance online publication ...
Sep 12, 2018
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Thirty-five years after an Arizona man cared for his son when he was shot in their native Lebanon, the son is returning that devotion.
Sep 11, 2018
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McMaster University researchers have provided evidence of new cancerous cells they have termed cancer regenerating cells, which are responsible for the return of acute myeloid leukemia after remission.
Sep 10, 2018
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Acute myeloid leukemia is one of the most aggressive cancers. While other cancers have benefitted from new treatments, there has been no encouraging news for most leukemia patients for the past 40 years. Until now.
Aug 24, 2018
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Clinical trials at University of Colorado Cancer Center and elsewhere now result in the drug ivosidenib earning approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or ...
Jul 30, 2018
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A decades-old medical mystery has been solved by researchers at UC San Francisco and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee, who have discovered a pair of inherited genetic mutations underlying a familial blood ...
Jul 30, 2018
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