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- Targeted Therapy for Leukemia May Prove a Breakthrough
April 4, 2001 -- Cindy Littrell of Salem, Ore., has leukemia -- chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML, to be exact. Diagnosed in February 1993 at age 45 by a blood test taken during a routine physical exam, she later endured a bone marrow transplant in an attempt to rid her body of the disease. After the
Read Full Article - Children and Cancer: What Happens the Second Time Around?
March 27, 2001 (New Orleans) -- As treatments for childhood cancers improve and cancer survivors live longer, there is mounting evidence that people who survived a childhood cancer may be at increased risk of developing another cancer later on. These second incidences of cancer do not seem to be dir
Read Full Article - Controversial Drug Useful for Advanced Type of Bone Marrow Cancer
May 21, 2000 (New Orleans) -- Thalidomide, a drug notorious for producing birth defects in babies born to women who took it for morning sickness in the 1960s, is proving to be effective for people with advanced multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. However, thalidomide is not currently appr
Read Full Article - Large Doses of Bioflavonoids Linked to Leukemia in Children
April 18, 2000 -- Research in recent years has shown that heavy doses of certain bioflavonoids -- chemicals found in some foods and supplements that are often considered beneficial -- may be linked with leukemia in infants and children. Now, University of Chicago genetics researchers have found the
Read Full Article - Experimental Drug Works in Chronic Leukemia
April 4, 2000 (San Francisco) -- Doctors say an experimental drug that showed extraordinary early success in controlling leukemia may also work in a rare but lethal brain cancer, and in a form of lung cancer. Known under its research name of STI571, the drug, taken by mouth, is designed to interfere
Read Full Article - Chemotherapy Could Affect Children's Learning Ability
Dec. 15, 1999 (Los Angeles) -- Children with leukemia who undergo chemotherapy of the central nervous system (CNS) may have an increased risk of learning problems several years later, say the authors of a new study. However, other experts caution that these findings are not definitive and should not
Read Full Article - Cockpit Crews at Increased Risk of Leukemia
Dec. 9, 1999 (Atlanta) -- High-flying jet pilots could be at higher risk of developing one form of leukemia, according to a study from the Dec. 11 issue of the journal The Lancet. But it's those long, post-flight hours spent lying on sunny beaches that are likely causing the many skin cancer cases f
Read Full Article - Drug Holds Promise for Patients With a Type of Leukemia
Dec. 3, 1999 (Tuscaloosa, Ala) -- In a study described as a "breakthrough" by a researcher at Oregon Health Sciences University, investigators will report Sunday that 31 of 31 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia treated with an experimental pill went into total remission. Chronic myelogenous
Read Full Article - Do Power Cables and Household Wiring Cause Cancer?
Dec. 2, 1999 (Minneapolis) -- Power cables and household wiring pose no increased risk of leukemia or other childhood cancers, according to British epidemiologists who reported their findings in two separate studies in the Dec. 2 issue of the journal The Lancet. These findings are similar to those o
Read Full Article - Thalidomide Finds Redemption as a Cancer Foe
Nov. 17, 1999 (Seattle) -- Thalidomide, a drug best known for causing horrific birth defects, is prolonging the lives of people with a rare form of cancer, according to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine Thursday. The study, conducted by a team at the University of Arkansas for Medical S
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