Drug offers hope in treating deadly leukemia: study
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A drug currently used to treat kidney cancer has shown promising results in treating the most common and deadly form of adult leukemia, according to a US study released Tuesday.
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A next-generation leukemia pill  designed to help patients not cured by the successful drug  Gleevec works even better than doctors had hoped, researchers  said Sunday.
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A drug used to treat bone marrow cancer may also help treat osteoporosis by stimulating stem cells, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.
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A drug to treat a common eye disease that damages vision produced promising results in a major trial, researchers say.
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A successful cancer-fighting drug may also damage the heart, although a researcher says leukemia patients who need Gleevec should not abandon it.
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Blood from a newborn&#39;s umbilical cord, often thrown away but rich in cells that may rebuild the body&#39;s blood production system, is safe to treat leukemia in adults, two studies released on Wednesday show.
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Well known as a poison that can kill, arsenic also can prolong the lives of patients with a rare form of leukemia, a new study out Saturday found.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- Scientists have developed a compound that may be able to treat cases of chronic myelogenous leukemia that are resistant to the so-called miracle drug Gleevec.
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A kidney cancer drug became the first medicine to extend the life of patients with advanced liver cancer in a large study, adding about three months to survival compared with a placebo, according to a data released on Monday.
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A pill that starves tumors of their  blood supply can help patients live longer, without adding to  some of the worst effects of chemotherapy, researchers reported  on Thursday.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- The anti-cancer drug Gleevec, highly touted for slowing the progression of chronic myeloid leukemia, also appears to stall a rare kind of skin cancer, a new study finds.
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Federal health advisers recommended approval of the first new cancer drug in the past decade specifically aimed at treating the most common childhood leukemia.
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A potent anti-cancer drug may provide a new treatment for Alzheimer's disease, research suggests.
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Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a drug that may eventually be used to treat children with a severe and fatal type of muscular dystrophy.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDayNews) -- A new drug is effective against potentially fatal fungal infections in cancer patients, researchers report.
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Arsenic, the poison of choice for many  a murder mystery, can significantly extend survival in patients  with a rare form of leukemia, U.S. researchers said on  Saturday.
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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's disease could also provide a better treatment for the cancer.