News tagged ‘Leukemia’ clear
When Charlie was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 4, his mother sent regular email updates to her large family and circle of friends. Her reflections grew into a touching chronicle of four years in the life of a child with cancer.
Tags: ChildhoodCancer, StemCellTransplant, PatientVideos, Leukemia
Stand Up To Cancer announced the second round of awards for its Innovative Research Grants Program, naming the 13 young scientists who will receive a combined $9.74 million to conduct high-risk/high-reward translational cancer research. Dana-Farber's Catherine J. Wu, MD, is one of the recipients.
Tags: Grants, Honors, Prevention, Leukemia
- Results suggest kinase inhibitor, teamed with chemotherapy, might reduce
the need for donor stem cell transplantation in some AML patients.
Tags: KinaseInhibitor, Leukemia
- Scientists have found a way to switch off the behavior of a protein that drives uncontrolled cell growth in tumors.
Tags: Leukemia
- Researchers report that patients with high-risk acute AML who received a
cancer vaccine after a stem cell transplant had few complications and
mounted a strong immune system attack on the disease.
Tags: StemCellTransplant, Leukemia
- An analysis of two dozen clinical studies finds most adults with
poor-risk and intermediate-risk acute myeloid leukemia benefit from
allogeneic stem cell transplants.
Tags: BasicResearch, StemCellTransplant, Leukemia
- A test developed by Dana-Farber scientists is the first to identify
which malignant blood cells are highly vulnerable to a promising type of
experimental drugs that unleash pent-up cell suicide factors to destroy
the cancer.
Tags: BasicResearch, Leukemia
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