A series of preliminary Mayo Clinic studies conducted in 2010 showed promise for the potential use of a chemical component of green tea (epigallocatechin gallate) in reducing the number of cancer cells in patients
with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Small peptide inhibitors of the CXCR4 chemokine receptor (CD184) antagonize the activation, migration, and antiapoptotic responses of CXCL12
in chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells.
No improvement in long - term survival over time
for chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients in stereotyped subsets # 1 and # 2 treated with chemo (immuno) therapy
The histone deacetylase inhibitor suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid induces apoptosis, down - regulates the CXCR4 chemokine receptor and impairs migration
of chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells express functional CXCR4 chemokine receptors that mediate spontaneous migration beneath bone marrow stromal cells.
Combining the kinase inhibitor ibrutinib with an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL119 can lead to complete remission in patients with high -
risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn's Abramson Cancer Center (ACC).
Several types of leukemia were characterized by exome sequencing,
including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute monocytic leukemia (M5 AML), and pediatric acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL).
The lab chose to use the TCL1 mouse model to study B - cell leukemia because ~ 90 percent of
human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients express the TCL1 protein, and the overexpression of TCL1 in B cells leads to the development of CLL in mice.
If chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with a good or poor prognosis could be identified already at the time of diagnosis, physicians would have better possibilities to adjust their therapeutic and follow - up strategies.
Jimenez de Oya N *, De Giovanni M *, Fioravanti J, Ubelhart R, Di Lucia P, Fiocchi A, Iacovelli S, Efremov DG, Caligaris - Cappio F, Jumaa H, Ghia P, Guidotti LG, Iannacone M. Pathogen - specific B cell receptors
drive chronic lymphocytic leukemia by light chain - dependent cross-reaction with autoantigens.
To examine cancer - specific stress at treatment initiation as a predictor of psychological and physical functioning trajectories in patients with relapsed / refractory
chronic lymphocytic leukemia during the first 5 months of treatment.
A Phase 1b, Open - Label, Dose Escalation Study of ME - 401 in Subjects with Relapsed /
Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia / Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma (CLL / SLL) or Follicular Lymphoma (FL)
By employing a translational approach and utilizing cutting - edge molecular tools, his research group has made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms behind the development
of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common adult leukemia.
The authors conclude that FL118 - based therapy may be beneficial for a subgroup of cancer patients with tumors such
as chronic lymphocytic leukemia and melanomas, in which MdmX overexpression confers treatment resistance.
Mohle R, Failenschmid C, Bautz F, Kanz L. Overexpression of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 in B
cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia is associated with increased functional response to stromal cell - derived factor - 1 (SDF - 1).
In particular, it is working on two drugs that target blood cancer therapies for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and
chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The drug treats
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and the drug is showing promise of moving up the treatment line to a front - line position where the market potential is even larger.
However,
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which is more common in the elderly, is difficult to cure, although long - term survival has been achieved in chronic myeloid leukemia due to the introduction of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (drugs that block signals promoting cancer cell growth).
In addition to ALL, asparaginase is also used to treat rarer cancers such as lymphosarcoma, Hodgkin's disease,
chronic lymphocytic leukemia, reticulosarcoma and melanosarcoma.
About 10 percent of patients with
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) discontinued therapy with the Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor drug ibrutinib because of disease progression during clinical trials, according to a study published online by JAMA Oncology.
Lymphoid cancers include diffuse large B - cell lymphomas (DLBCL), follicular lymphoma (FL), and
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which were the focus of the present study.
«Reasons for ibrutinib therapy discontinuation in patients with
chronic lymphocytic leukemia.»
Ibrutinib has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of certain patients with several other cancers, including mantle cell lymphoma,
chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and Waldenström macroglobulinemia.
A year later, Carlo Croce, now director of the Human Cancer Genetics Program at Ohio State University, reported that
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common form of the disease, was caused by deletion of two microRNA genes.
«We have seen SF3B1 mutation in
chronic lymphocytic leukemia and in myeloid dysplastic disorders, and now we show its importance in mucosal melanoma,» says Aik Choon Tan, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and associate professor of Bioinformatics at the CU School of Medicine.
Patients who have enrolled in trials of this approach for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL),
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) typically undergo lymphodepleting chemotherapy before receiving an infusion of their newly engineered cells.
The new drug will now be tested in patients with
chronic lymphocytic leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in an early stage clinical trial.
The findings will be presented by Stephen Schuster, MD, the Robert and Margarita Louis - Dreyfus Associate Professor in
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Lymphoma Clinical Care and Research in the Abramson Cancer Center.
In a dose - optimization study of 35 patients with
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), researchers examined two different doses of CTL019 — a lower dose (5 x 107 cells) and a higher dose (5 x 108 cells).
Notch is one of the most frequently mutated genes in
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common leukemia in adults in the United States.
Some other lncRNAs have been found at higher levels in breast, stomach, lung, prostate cancer and
chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Levine and his colleagues designed a new gene that can be inserted into T cells to trick them into attacking cancerous B cells, the cause of
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a malignancy characterized by the progressive accumulation of mature B cells.
Phrases with «chronic lymphocytic leukemia»