Bull's eye target for child leukemia found: study
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British researchers have identified the cancer stem cells that spawn tumors in the most common form of childhood leukemia, and said on Thursday it provided a "bull's eye" target for new drugs.
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THURSDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDayNews) -- A breakthrough in finding better treatments against a rare childhood leukemia has gotten a big boost from research in a completely different field -- Alzheimer's disease.
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Sun exposure apparently has a protective effect against the development non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), a blood cancer, Australian researchers report.
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Blood from the umbilical cords of newborn babies could save the lives of thousands of leukemia patients without other treatment options, according to a study by several institutions including the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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NEW YORK  - The chances of children being diagnosed with leukemia seem to be related to the number of infections they had in their first year of life, research from the UK suggests.
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Breastfeeding for even a few months may lower the odds that a child will develop leukemia, a new research review suggests. The analysis of 14 studies conducted since
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A growing body of evidence linking increased night light to certain types of cancer has led researchers to suspect it could be connected to the steady increase in cases of childhood leukemia.
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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, the groundbreaking cancer pill, research presented Sunday in San Diego at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology shows.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDayNews) -- Early diet may play an important role in protecting against childhood leukemia, according to new Loyola University Medical Center research.
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Doctors following 103-children recently diagnosed with leukemia measuring antioxidant levels, antioxidant capacity and oxidative damage during the first six months of treatment.
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Arsenic may be a suitable first-line treatment for a rare form of leukemia called acute promyeloctytic leukemia (APL), an Iranian study claims.
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A three-year study into a cluster of childhood leukemia cases in Sierra Vista detected no toxic exposures that could have caused the illnesses, federal health officials said.
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Luke Do was a lively 18-month-old awaiting the birth of his first sibling when he was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. The hopes of his parents, both doctors in San Jose, Calif., immediately turned to a bone marrow transplant, but they soon learned some distressing news &#151; Luke's ethnic heritage made him a tough match.
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The research focused on women like Linda Aponte who are stressed because they care for chronically sick children. Her daughter Lana was diagnosed with leukemia at age 4. &quot;I thought to myself, &#39;This is impossible.
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Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation that causes an aggressive form of childhood leukemia and said on Thursday it may mean that drugs being developed for Alzheimer&#39;s disease could also provide a better treatment for the
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Babies who are breastfed have a lower risk of developing childhood leukemia, according to a new analysis of 14 studies by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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NEW YORK  - Sun exposure apparently has a protective effect against the development non-Hodgkin&#39;s lymphoma (NHL), a blood cancer, Australian researchers report.