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Aspartame, Artificial Sweetener, A Safe Bet!

...t aspartame may be related to an increased risk of leukemia and lymphoma in rats. The design and execution of the study did not follow guidelines set up by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), the U.S. government toxicology initiative administered by the NIEHS. NTP has recently completed three animal studi...

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Has An Answer Now!

...ul in inhibiting the growth of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cells in cultures and mice by up to 90 perce...cent, and induced the death and differentiation of leukemia cells. Forskolin had no adverse effects on the normal cells. It is currently used in Japan as a bro...

The potent anti-leukemia activity of Berbamine

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell dis...berbamine is also active against Gleevec-resistant leukemia cells. It is of interest to note that berbamine down-regulates p210 bcr/abl oncoprotein of Ph+ leuke...

Mom's Stomach Bacteria Can Cause Leukaemia In Children

...the study. However, there was no link between the leukemia risk and other two bacteria found. Caution is nee...at carriers of H. pylori would have a high risk of leukemia in their children. The association may or may not be coincidental. (American Journal of Epidemiolog...

Citrinin, a fungal toxin, induces apoptosis via mitochondrial pathway

...ochondria-dependent pathway in human promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60) and the process is not directly corr...dative stress. For the study, human promyelocytic leukemia (HL-60) cells were chosen to identify the apoptotic process induced by CTN. Morphological evidence o...

Protective regimen for acute Graft-versus-host disease

...patients with lymphoid malignant diseases or acute leukemia underwent an experimental conditioning regimen wit...lantation for lymphoid malignant diseases or acute leukemia can markedly decrease the incidence of acute GVHD while retaining the antitumor effect of the graft,...

Monoclonal antibodies show promise in treatment of blood cancer

...s such as multiple myeloma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. The findings of the study have been published in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for the week October 10, 2005. Professor and Chair of Immu...

Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields for children

...rlier age. Due to an association between childhood leukemia and exposure to extremely low frequency (ELF) magn...is one of the few known risk factors for childhood leukemia and brain cancer. Radio and television broadcasts, mobile phones and base stations, and other commun...

Gene Fusion Test to screen children’s with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemi

...treatment is given by chemotherapy which kills the leukemia cells and allows the bone marrow to produce non cancerous cells. Chemotherapy can get rid of the leukaemia cells in about three-quarters of people with ALL, putting them into disease remission. This new gene test helps to detect more resistant and ...

RNA Nanotechnology To Rescue Cancer Patients In Future

...errupt the growth of human breast cancer cells and leukemia model lymphocytes in laboratory experiments. "One characteristic of cancer cells is that they do not stop growing, which is one reason tumors develop," said Guo, a senior researcher. "Once inside, the siRNA essentially instructs the cells to 'stop ...

Socialization A Serious Trouble For Childhood Cancer Survivors

... children with brain tumors, neuroblastoma // , or leukemia and children treated with cranial radiation therap...eport difficulties with friendships. Children with leukemia or neuroblastoma are also at greater risk for social adjustment difficulties, which has not been pre...

Treating Leukemia With Natural Cells

...dy shows promising treatment for acute myelogenous leukemia // patients may lie in artificially stimulating natural killer cells from a patient’s family member. Researchers say this method could help treat patients with the highly fatal cancer of the bone marrow that has become resistant to standard treatme...

Can Ajinomoto cause cancer?

... study// shows that aspartame causes lymphomas and leukemia in female laboratory animals "at doses very close to the acceptable daily intake for humans". The authors of the study also say that while rats fed aspartame ate less food, there was no difference in body weight between treated and untreated animals....

High-Dosage of Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide may cause AML

...cer// patients increased the risk of Acute myeloid leukemia or Myelodysplastic syndrome. Recent study publish...have an increased risk of developing Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). This study was done by Dr. David Rogers and his team, in ...

Advent of New, More Effective and Personalized Medicines

...astatic breast cancer, Gleevec for chronic myeloid leukemia and Erbitux for metastatic colorectal cancer. This new approach will allow medicines to be uniquely crafted to maximize their therapeutic benefits and minimize the potential risks for each patient. Doctors will eventually be able to analyze a patien...

Hope for patients with Chronic leukemia

...ontrol CLL by shortening the life-span of existing leukemia cells and interferes with the making of new DNA, thus preventing leukemia cells from growing. With this treatment the remission can last for several years, thereby increasing...

Ageing stem cells at the root of infections, leukemia

Scientists have reported that the incidence of leukemia and infections in elderly people// may be due to t...lso such slow down can also mean high incidence of leukemia due to cancer of the blood cells. This happens as the older blood forming cells use a gene that caus...

Genetics linked to leukemia treatment success rate in children

...of 246 children suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The patients were divided into a high-risk ... on the intensity of therapy. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a form of cancer that affects the lymphocyte producing cells. In ALL, there is an accumulat...

Childhood leukemia linked to residence close to high voltage power lines

...University of Oxford, UK, incidence// of childhood leukemia had been linked to proximity of residence to high ...en able to establish linking the high incidence of leukemia in children and close proximity to the high voltage power line, in spite of the study results....

Prenatal exposure to air pollution causes chromosomal damage

...happen in babies had been linked with incidence of leukemia and other forms of cancer in later life. Researchers feel there may be more health hazards related to chromosomal changes that are yet to be discovered. The study will be published in a future issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and ...

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