Leukemia Survivors Prone to Other Cancers
...e, involved 2169 people who were treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia as children and adolescents between 1962 and 1998. The study showed that the occurrence of new cancer increased over 30 years of their leukemia treatment. Among the 1290 patients who remained in complete remission, about 10 per cent de...Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivors at Risk for Secondary Cancer
A new study finds that survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukemia have a significantly increased risk of se...when compared to the general population. // Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common cancer in children and adolescents, with almost 4,000 new cases diagnose...Knocking Out Survival Protein Could Aid Leukemia Treatment
...ms of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The two forms of cancer kill about 20,500 Americans yearly. The survival protein is called Mcl1. It usually helps keep normal cells healthy and is involved in the development of the components of the immune system, but it can also h...Knocking Out Survival Protein Could Fight Leukemia
...ms of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The two forms of cancer kill about 20,500 Americans yearly. The survival protein is called Mcl1. It usually helps keep normal cells healthy and is involved in the development of the components of the immune system, but it can also h...Cord Blood Transplant Benefits Blood Cancer Patients
...ren younger than 16 who had the diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or acute myeloid leukemia (AML)....New Mouse Model to Aid in Cancer-causing Genes Hunt
...Researchers created mice which formed T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma, or T-ALL, and the cancer cells showed rampant genome instability resulting in intricate pattern of mutations, chromosomal rearrangements, gene amplifications and gene deletions similar to those in human solid tumors. Researchers...Inherited Genes Linked to Toxicity of Leukemia Therapy
...ons in certain genes that make children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) susceptible to the toxic side effects caused by chemotherapy medications. The researchers showed that these variations, called polymorphisms, occur in specific genes known to influence pharmacodynamics (how drugs work in the body and ...New Engineered Drug Shows Promise in Treating Lymphocytic Leukaemia
...gnancies, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia when they have expression of the CD37 protein." The laboratory portion of the study used CLL cells from patients, laboratory-grown non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cells and acute lymphocytic leukemia cells. This research showed that the agent k......urday's Lancet. In general, children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia have a good chance of survival -- about ...ease. In addition to the standard drug for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia -- a treatment called Prednisone -- the children were given tiny doses of drugs usually de...