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Published on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 by mcypen
(HealthDay News) -- 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, according to a new study.
"This study tells us that the inferior outcome for [adolescent and young adult] patients is the result of more resistant disease...
Published on Thursday, April 12, 2012 by mcypen
Additional chemotherapy may a better option than bone marrow transplant for some children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who don't respond to an initial intense regimen of chemotherapy called "induction therapy," a new study says.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
According to study co-author Dr. Ching-Hon Pui, failur...
Published on Saturday, March 31, 2012 by mcypen
Children with the most common type of leukemia now have a dramatically better chance of survival, a new study shows.
The researchers found five-year survival rates among children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) increased from about 84 percent to 90 percent from 1990 to 2005. Surviving for five years is considered a cure because so few deaths occur past that t...
Published on Friday, March 30, 2012 by mcypen
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced what it called a series of steps to ensure the continued availability of vital cancer drugs that have been in dangerously short supply.
One of the drugs, methotrexate, is used in combination with other drugs to combat -- and in many cases cure -- acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common type of cancer in...
Published on Saturday, February 18, 2012 by mcypen
Results from a new study pinpoint genetic basis for increased leukemia risk facing Hispanic children and provide new hope for closing survival gap.
Hispanic children are more likely than those from other racial and ethnic backgrounds to be diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and are more likely to die of their disease. <Read More>...
Published on Friday, January 27, 2012 by mcypen
The human genome is the complete set of instructions needed to assemble and sustain human life. Leukemia and other cancers develop when normal cells accumulate mutations in the genome that cause the unchecked cell growth that is a hallmark of cancer. The three-year Pediatric Cancer Genome Project is sequencing the genomes of tumor cells and matched normal DNA samples ...
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