Sentences with phrase «developed leukaemia»

A «miracle» gene therapy treatment for children suffering from the fatal «bubble boy» disease has been halted in France, after one of the patients developed leukaemia as a direct consequence of the treatment.

A trial of a gene treatment for children with severe combined immunodeficiency, who have no functioning immune system, was called off after some of the patients developed leukaemia.

A MAJOR flaw may have wrecked years of experiments designed to find a biological mechanism to explain the claim that children living near power lines are more likely to develop leukaemia.

A NEW British study suggests the children of men exposed to radiation while working at nuclear plants are twice as likely to develop leukaemia.

2002 French SCID trial suspended after four children develop leukaemia as a result of the retrovirus vector.

Children who attend daycare in their first few months are much less likely to develop leukaemia than those who stay at home, for instance, while some tuberculosis vaccines reduce the risk of skin cancer.

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The international research team, led by scientists at the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, studied a group of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes — a malignant blood condition which frequently develops into acute myeloid leukaemia.

Currently, four projects are being run aimed at developing new, effective treatments for both haematological forms of cancer (leukaemia) and solid tumours.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, KI, and SciLifeLab have together with colleagues in USA identified mutations in blood, which considerably increases the risk of developing various types of blood cancer, like leukaemia.

Ultimately the results will help the field of cancer research to learn how to combine and develop different therapies to achieve better clinical outcomes for leukaemia patients.

It was developed as a rubber stabilizer and herbicide similar to Agent Orange and may cause liver / kidney damage, skin cancers and leukaemia, hair - loss, sight loss, foetal abnormalities and chronic diarrhoea.

Cats sharing their homes with smokers are twice as likely than other cats in non-smoking households to develop Feline Leukaemia, the risk rises to three times more likely in cats exposed to smoke for 5 years.