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New Approach to Treat Leukemia Discovered

New Approach to Treat Leukemia Discovered

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the most common form of acute leukemia, is characterized by an increase of malignant myeloid progenitor cells at the expense of mature blood cells. Only twenty-...

Drug Compounds for Treating Aggressive Form of Leukemia

Drug Compounds for Treating Aggressive Form of Leukemia

Treating recurrent acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer that is one of the most lethal diseases, has become difficult. About 19,520 news cases are diagnosed a year, and a...

New Leukemia Drug Shows Promising Results

New Leukemia Drug Shows Promising Results

Newer targeted drug ibrutinib was more effective than standard therapy for treating elderly patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), found landmark study co-authored by a Loyola Med...

New Potential Treatment for Leukemia Discovered

New Potential Treatment for Leukemia Discovered

An active ingredient in eye drops was found to show promising results in treating an aggressive form of blood cancer, said scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Cambridg...

Pediatric Leukemia Super Drug Could Become Reality

Pediatric Leukemia Super Drug Could Become Reality

In mice, two successful treatments slowed the progression of pediatric leukemia, according to three studies published over the last two years in the journal Cell, and the final paper publish...

Weakness Of a Chemotherapy Resistant Form Of Leukemia Found

Weakness Of a Chemotherapy Resistant Form Of Leukemia Found

A combination of ibrutinib, a targeted treatment already in clinical use, with a new inhibitor called AZD8055 can help treat hard to treat cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). T...

New Insights into Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treatment

New Insights into Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treatment

Rapid drug response screening for leukemia stem cells offers clues to relapse and to improving patient-specific therapies, revealed research. AML is a serious disorder of certain blo...

New drug combination for treating Chronic Leukemia

New drug combination for treating Chronic Leukemia

Combination of ibrutinib plus rituximab was found superior to the old treatment for patients aged below 70 years with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who are previously untreated, accordi...

FDA's Nod for New Drug to Treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia

FDA's Nod for New Drug to Treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Xospata, the new drug, has been approved recently by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating adults with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) having the FLT3 mu...

Good Response Rate for Venetoclax Against AML

Good Response Rate for Venetoclax Against AML

Venetoclax with azacitidine combination shown 91 percent response rate among older adults who were newly diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a study published in Natur...

New Strategy Identified to Treat Chemo-Resistant Acute Myeloid Leukemia

New Strategy Identified to Treat Chemo-Resistant Acute Myeloid Leukemia

A promising strategy to treat chemotherapy-resistant acute myeloid leukemia has been developed by a team of researchers from The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa. In a mouse...

High Stress in Few Leukemia Patients May Increase the Risk of More Advanced Disease

High Stress in Few Leukemia Patients May Increase the Risk of More Advanced Disease

High amount of stress in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is associated with more cancer cells in their blood and raised levels of three different markers of more advanced il...

Major New Vulnerability of Childhood Leukemia Uncovered

Major New Vulnerability of Childhood Leukemia Uncovered

LEDGF/p75 protein is regulated by phosphorylation, a molecular modification that changes the electrical charge of the LEDGF/p75 protein in children with mixed lineage leukemia, found researc...

Melanoma, Dangerous Skin Cancer Linked with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Melanoma, Dangerous Skin Cancer Linked with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

A large group of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia were found to have a sizable 600 percent higher risk of melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer. A Wilmot Cancer Institu...

New Finding Leads to Better Leukemia Treatment

New Finding Leads to Better Leukemia Treatment

NPM1 mutation improves sensitivity to chemotherapy in patients with leukemia, stated study published in journal JCI Insight. Previous research has revealed that patients with acute m...

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