Sentences with phrase «developing leukemia»

They also are susceptible to developing leukemia and other forms of cancer.

CMBX also owns a 1/3 stake in a company called Leuchemix, which is developing a leukemia drug.

Genetic predisposition: Some people appear to have a higher risk of developing leukemia because of a fault in one or several genes.

«However, drugs are being developed that can promote p300 function and possibly prevent MDS patients from developing leukemia.»

Epidemiologists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that persons residing at higher latitudes, with lower sunlight / ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure and greater prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, are at least two times at greater risk of developing leukemia than equatorial populations.

Babies who are raised on commercial formula are 8 times more like to develop leukemia and lymphoma.

Umbilical cord cells from a child who develops leukemia are more likely to develop leukemia themselves, prompting physicians to steer clear of these cells.

Two of 10 children treated with gene therapy for SCID in a French trial develop leukemia, researchers announced in 2002, and it is discovered that the virus had inserted genes in several unexpected places around the genome, leading the cells to become cancerous.

They examined tissue samples from 18 children with NF who also developed leukemia.

New research suggests that repeated exposure to galactic cosmic rays and other forms of radiation would be debilitating — astronauts could suffer brain damage or develop leukemia after reaching the Red Planet — and ultimately deadly.

Some patients with myelofibrosis develop leukemia.

One 18 - year - old patient died in a trial in 1999, and a promising French trial of therapy for inherited immune deficiency was suspended last year after three patients developed leukemia, leading The Wall Street Journal to proclaim that «the field seems cursed.»

(In the early 2000s, five children who participated in a retrovirus - based gene therapy trial for severe combined immunodeficiency developed leukemia.)

Brown's HIV disappeared after he developed leukemia and doctors gave him repeated blood transfusions from a donor who harbored a mutated version of a receptor the virus uses to enter cells.

The announcement last month that a fifth child who received gene therapy for an immune system disease has developed leukemia was the latest blow to the field of gene therapy.

Vaccine Clears Leukemia Cells A newly developed leukemia vaccine appears to get rid of cancer cells left behind after treatment with the drug Gleevec.

Nearly 5 percent of children with the condition will develop leukemia, with the risk rising to 25 percent by adulthood.

Unfortunately, within a few years of treatment, a significant minority have developed leukemia.

The first is of an actual little girl who developed leukemia probably within a few months of that picture.

We're wondering too, if Yuliya's gorgeous paper crane dress (more photos after the jump) is a stylish but fitting fashion tribute to a well - known young victim of the atom bomb back in World War II.Sadako Sasaki, an eleven - year - old Japanese girl who developed leukemia years after the dropping of the atomic bomb near her home, was made famous by her quest to fold one thousand paper cranes so that she could be granted the wish to get well.

Kiley fought and helped win a settlement for familes that had developed leukemia.

Kiley fought and helped win a substantial award against two major corporations for families who had developed leukemia as a result of a polluted local water supply.

Not exact matches

The original pharmaceutical company was in the process of developing Annamycin, a drug that selectively kills highly resistant tumors, especially patients suffering from AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia).

An 18 - year - old takes the science world by storm, a teenager develops a computer algorithm to diagnose leukemia and another teenager wins a fellowship to skip college and build a crowdfunding platform.

He also developed CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukemia).

Children who eat more than 12 hot dogs per month have nine times the normal risk of developing childhood leukemia, a USC epidemiologist has reported in a cancer research journal.

Because there are discernable differences in childhood leukemia rates and breastfeeding rates between developed countries with a Western lifestyle and other countries, an analysis was conducted including only the 12 studies18 - 25,37,38,40,42 led in developed countries.

There is a concern that participating control individuals have a higher socioeconomic status than nonparticipating control individuals, 19 and in developed countries, maternal socioeconomic status plays a role in the decision to breastfeed and its duration.59, 60 If indeed the control individuals have higher socioeconomic status and therefore higher breastfeeding rates, it constitutes a differential misclassification that might lead to overestimation of the association between breastfeeding and leukemia.

Specifically, «The bill expands coverage to volunteer firefighters with at least five years of service who developed lymphoma or leukemia after their service, and coverage for volunteer firefighters with at least 10 years of service who develop stomach, skin, breast, prostate and other reproductive cancers after their service,» according to information from Senator Jacobs» office.

In 2011, after spending 8 years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.

A decade ago, he replicated the entire human leukemia disease process by introducing oncogenes into normal human blood cells, transplanting them into xenografts (special immune - deficient mice that accept human grafts) and watching leukemia develop — a motherlode discovery that has guided leukemia research ever since.

It is almost inevitable that we will develop genetic mutations associated with leukemia as we age, according to research published today in Cell Reports.

This study helps us understand how aging can lead to leukemia, even though the great majority of people will not live long enough to accumulate all the mutations required to develop the disease.»

DNMT3A is among the most frequently mutated genes in an aggressive type of leukemia, and it plays a significant role in how this disease develops.

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) develops through chromosomal alterations in blood - forming cells of the bone marrow and usually occurs in older persons.

Currently no treatment option is available for five percent of patients suffering from chronic myelogenous leukemia, since they have developed resistance to conventional medications.

Along with researchers studying nuclear reprogramming and physicians who developed a revolutionary leukemia drug, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg won a public service award from the Lasker Foundation today.

«As a transplant physician, it's beyond heartbreaking to witness a patient develop severe acute graft - versus - host disease after having their leukemia cured through bone marrow transplant,» said Kean.

Leukemia researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have developed a 17 - gene signature derived from leukemia stem cells that can predict at diagnosis if patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will respond to standard trLeukemia researchers at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have developed a 17 - gene signature derived from leukemia stem cells that can predict at diagnosis if patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will respond to standard trleukemia stem cells that can predict at diagnosis if patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) will respond to standard trleukemia (AML) will respond to standard treatment.

Stanley W. K. Ng, a senior PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Peter Zandstra at the Institute for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto and co-lead author of the paper, used rigorous statistical approaches to develop and test the new «stemness score,» using AML patient data provided by the Princess Margaret leukemia clinic and collaborators in the United States and Europe.

Researchers studying two generations of a family affected by pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have identified an inherited variation in the ETV6 gene that is associated with an increased risk of developing the disease.

Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have shown that p300, a protein that increases gene expression by attaching acetyl molecules to DNA, may stop myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) from developing into acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

These findings provide renewed hope for developing new treatments for this aggressive type of leukemia.»

The findings help to explain the early development of leukemia, representing the essential first step to developing new treatments for patients based on these findings.

«By being able to distinguish benign from malignant aging based on distinctive RNA splicing patterns, we can develop therapeutic strategies that selectively target leukemia stem cells while sparing normal hematopoietic stem cells,» she said.

The answer may be in the drug bosutinib, developed by Pfizer, which earned FDA approval in 2013 for the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia.

However, about 15 percent of patients on immunosuppressives develop cancer of the blood — acute leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes — months or years following treatment.

Ninety percent of children and adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who had relapsed multiple times or failed to respond to standard therapies went into remission after receiving an investigational personalized cellular therapy, CTL019, developed at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Scientists in Germany have developed a new approach that may prevent leukemia and lymphoma patients from developing graft - versus - host disease (GvHD) after therapeutic bone marrow transplants.

People in an acute stage of the disease often develop severe anemia, because the leukemia cells, which live almost ten times as long as their normal counterparts, replace healthy cells in the bone marrow.