Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive form of leukemia, and can have high mortality rates. But now, it’s possible that the avocado could help researchers develop a drug to increase life expectancy and quality of life for patients suffering from AML. Leukemia stem cells are the cells that drive disease development, and unfortunately, it’s […]
Zebrafish are helping researchers test safer treatments for a form of pediatric cancer called T-ALL (T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia). It’s important to work towards developing less toxic cancer treatments, and these small fish could be part of the solution. So how are fish helping pediatric cancer patients? A patient’s cancer cells are injected into the […]
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, is the most common form of childhood cancer, making up 25% of cancer diagnoses in children under the age of 15. While the disease has about an 80% survival rate, that’s not good enough. Unfortunately, there are cases where cancer cells are resistant to chemotherapy. But researchers are working on […]
New information from research in Toronto could help improve the effectiveness of bone marrow transplants for patients suffering from leukemia (and other cancers and immune disorders). Studies in mice, which were confirmed with samples from humans, showed that stem cells from bone ends are better at regenerating blood cells and immune system cells than the stem […]