News tagged with acute lymphocytic leukemia
Rituximab and fludarabine produce long-term remissions in CLL
New research shows that a less-toxic combination of a targeted immune-based drug and a chemotherapy drug can produce long-term remissions in some chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients. And it does so without increasing the ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Scientists bioengineer a protein to fight leukemia
Scientists at the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases and The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles today announced a breakthrough discovery in understanding how the body ...
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Team zeroes in on better way to predict prognosis in pediatric leukemia patients
Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center may have found a way to more accurately predict treatment outcomes in young leukemia patients using information ...
Apr 09, 2010 |
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Researchers find drug that inhibits acute leukemia cell growth
Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered how to turn off a certain receptor that promotes the growth of leukemia cells. The pre-clinical study ...
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Device aims to decrease wait period for patients needing immunotherapy
Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have created a device that significantly decreases the time needed to produce genetically manipulated ...
Feb 13, 2009 |
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