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View Post: Two units of umbilical cord blood 'reduce leukemia recurrence risk ...
14 Nov 2009 by ANI  
Eighty-eight patients had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and 89 had acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). “Our analysis showed that patients in first or second remission from the leukaemia had a significantly lower likelihood of leukaemia recurrence if they were transplanted with two ... Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): Scientists from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre have come up with a novel treatment that would improve survival rates of leukemia and pre-leukemia patients. ...
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View Post: Blood -- Quantitative DNA-methylation predicts survival in adult ...
10 Nov 2009 by Bullinger, L., Ehrich, M., Dohner, K.,...  
Quantitative DNA-methylation predicts survival in adult acute myeloid leukemia. Lars Bullinger1, Mathias Ehrich2,4, Konstanze Dohner1, Richard F. Schlenk1, Hartmut Dohner1, Matthew R. Nelson3 and Dirk van den Boom2 ...
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View Post: Orphan drug designation granted to voreloxin for acute myeloid ...
5 Nov 2009
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals was granted orphan drug designation by the FDA for its drug candidate, voreloxin for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). ... urate oxidase enzyme, has been approved for the initial management of plasma uric acid (PUA) levels in adult patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and solid tumor malignancies who are receiving anti-cancer therapy expected to result in tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) and subsequent elevations of plasma uric acid. ...
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View Post: symptoms of acute myeloid leukemia - Health Resources - Health ...
9 Oct 2009 by Tiny  
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Adult) - Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention . at diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia is 65 . There are very few hereditary causes of acute myeloid leukemia. . Symptoms of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (Adult) . -> ... symptoms of acute myeloid leukemia. Acute myeloid leukemia definition - Cancer Information (Cancers . . on many different cancers includes symptoms, cancer detection and prevention, and . Definition of Acute myeloid leukemia Related Articles ...
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View Post: Two Units of Cord Blood Reduces Likelihood of Recurrence of ...
16 Nov 2009 by Cord Blood  
A recent study conducted at the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota discovered that transplantation of 2 units of cord blood significantly reduces the likelihood of recurrence of leukemia. ... Eighty-eight patients were treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and 89 were treated for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The analysis demonstrated that that patients in first or second remission from leukemia had a significantly lower likelihood of recurrence if ...
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View Post: U of M researchers find 2 units of umbilical cord blood reduce ...
13 Nov 2009 by BJS  
PAUL (November 11, 2009) -- A new study from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota shows that patients who have acute leukemia and are transplanted with two units of umbilical cord blood (UCB) have significantly reduced risk of the disease returning ... "Given that adult patients were more likely to receive two UCB units and that they tend to have more aggressive leukemia, we think that the lower relapse rates with two UCB units is remarkable," says Verneris. ...
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View Post: Expression of ABCC-Type Nucleotide Exporters in Blasts of Adult ...
27 Feb 2009 by Guo, Y., Kock, K., Ritter, CA, Chen, Z.-S.,...  
Authors' Affiliations:1Medical Science Division, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Departments of 2Pharmacology and 3Clinical Pharmacology, Research Center of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and 4Institute of Pharmacy, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, ... Purpose: Successful treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains a therapeutic challenge, with a high percentage of patients suffering from persistent or relapsed disease. ...
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View Post: Daunorubicin Versus Mitoxantrone Versus Idarubicin As Induction ...
6 Nov 2009 by Mandelli, Vignetti, Suciu, Stasi, Petti,...  
Purpose To compare the antitumor efficacy of three different anthracyclines in combination with cytarabine and etoposide in adult patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Patients and Methods We randomly assigned 2157 patients (age range, ... 2U10-CA11488-23 through 2U10-CA11488-36 from the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; and by grants from the Italian Cancer League and by the Italian Association Against Leukemias, Lymphoma, and Myeloma. ...
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View Post: Basketball Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Diagnosed With Leukemia ...
10 Nov 2009 by Carol Blackmon  
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest college and professional basketball players of all time, says he has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer. “I have chronic myeloid leukemia,” Abdul-Jabbar told CNN. ...
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View Post: Cancer Therapies Right On Target
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19 Nov 2009 by Randy Wilfried   ...
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