News tagged with chronic myelogenous leukemia
Awards given for leukemia treatment, DNA advances
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Five scientists have won prestigious research awards for developing a life-saving leukemia treatment and for advances in "reprogramming" DNA, which led to a new kind of stem cell.
Malignant signature may help identify patients likely to respond to therapy
Sep 06, 2009 |
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A molecular signature that helps account for the aggressive behavior of a variety of cancers such as pancreatic, breast and melanoma may also predict the likelihood of successful treatment with a particular anti-cancer drug. ...
Researchers highlight new direction for drug discovery
Jul 05, 2009 |
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In a discovery that rebuffs conventional scientific thinking, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered a novel way to block the activity of the fusion protein responsible for Ewing's sarcoma, ...
Data suggesting that omacetaxine can eradicate leukemic stem cells may offer a breakthrough for CML
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Data showing the ability of omacetaxine to kill leukemic stem cells in mouse models with drug-resistant chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) are the subject of an advance online publication in the journal Leukemia, ChemGenex Pharma ...
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Leukemia vaccine tested in clinical trials
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 11, 2007 |
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U.S. scientists say patients responding to a new peptide vaccine for leukemia enjoyed a median remission more than three times longer than non-responders.
Finding key to cancer drug Gleevec's limitations
Aug 05, 2009 |
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University of Michigan researchers have developed an animal model that provides strong evidence why imatinib, marketed as Gleevec, helps patients with chronic myeloid leukemia survive longer, but does not ...
Combination of 2 novel anti-cancer agents may help fight CML resistant to current therapy
May 29, 2008 |
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Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researchers have identified that a combination of novel anti-cancer compounds is able to kill chronic myelogenous leukemia cells previously resistant to conventional forms ...
Gene therapy protocol activates immune system in patients with leukemia
Feb 11, 2008 |
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A research team at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reports that patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who were treated with a gene therapy protocol began making antibodies ...
A potential new way to make a good anti-leukemia drug even better
Oct 20, 2008 |
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A recently identified cancer-causing protein makes the anti-leukemia drug imatinib, less effective. By blocking the protein, an international team of researchers was able to slow the spread of leukemia cells in culture. The ...
Young leukemia and lymphoma patients live longer today than in years past
Aug 24, 2009 |
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A new analysis has found that adolescents and young adults who were recently diagnosed with blood-related cancers have better long-term survival rates than those who were diagnosed in the 1980s. Published in the November ...
Researchers identify granddaddy of human blood cells
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Dec 12, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have isolated a human blood cell that represents the great-grandparent of all the cells of the blood, a finding that could lead to new treatments for blood cancers ...
Cancer Researchers Identify New Mutant Genes
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of New Mexico Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic mutation underlying one of the most common childhood cancers, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The discovery could lead to more ...
Scientists Uncover Indicator that Warns Leukemia is Progressing to More Dangerous Form
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, Stanford University School of Medicine and other centers have identified a mechanism by which a chronic form of leukemia ...
Math could help cure leukemia
Jun 20, 2008 |
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When kids complain that math homework won't help them in real life, a new answer might be that math could help cure cancer.
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