"Leukemia patients" refers to individuals who have a type of cancer called leukemia. Leukemia affects the blood and bone marrow, causing an abnormal increase of white blood cells. These patients require medical treatment and care to manage their condition.
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In a previous trial
in leukemia patients, each patient had between 3 and 7 pounds of tumor that was destroyed by the incoming CAR T cells.
The flu shot may not protect
pediatric leukemia patients from influenza during cancer treatment, highlighting the need for additional safeguards.
The team analyzed survival data submitted by more than 150 U.S. transplant centers
for leukemia patients from 2000 — 2011.
Burt, of Northwestern University, first imagined stem cell treatments 20 years ago, while working with
leukemia patients who received bone marrow transplants; the patients subsequently lost their immunity to childhood diseases like mumps and measles, necessitating a new round of vaccinations.
Low - dose donor CD8 + cells in the CD4 - depleted graft prevent allogeneic marrow graft rejection and severe graft - versus - host disease for chronic
myeloid leukemia patients in first chronic phase.
12/4/2007 UCSD Launches Vaccine Trial for Chronic Lymphocytic
Leukemia Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have failed chemotherapy or have chosen to forego chemotherapy have an opportunity to participate in a new clinical trial for a CLL vaccine being conducted at the Moores Cancer Center at the Univer... More...
No improvement in long - term survival over time for chronic
lymphocytic leukemia patients in stereotyped subsets # 1 and # 2 treated with chemo (immuno) therapy
«Batkid Begins» June 26 This feel - good documentary tells the story of a five - year -
old leukemia patient who inspired people from all over the world to help him live out his dream of being Batman for a day.
They treated a variety of healthy tissues and 23 samples of cancer cells taken
from leukemia patients with AG1295, a drug known to selectively block the kinase.
By developing a CAR T - cell therapy that targets a second target on malignant cells, it may
help leukemia patients whose cancer cells lack the C19 molecule or lose it.
She ultimately chose to
study leukemia patients» immune responses to bone marrow transplants, an area conducive to translational research in part because the work involves treating patients with human cells, which can be prepared at academic health centers.
Measuring the concentration of leukemia cells in patient bone marrow during the first 46 days of chemotherapy should help boost survival of young
leukemia patients by better matching patients with the right intensity of chemotherapy.
Overall, researchers showed that regardless of other risk factors, including age at diagnosis or the initial white blood cell count, patients with an MRD level of 1 percent or more on day 19 of therapy were far less likely than other
young leukemia patients to be alive and cancer - free 10 years later.
If Novartis's product is approved for
leukemia patients up to 28 years old, say, and «you have a 28.1 - year - old, does that mean you can't treat them?»
One of his advanced -
stage leukemia patients had low levels of electrolytes and compromised kidney function, the caller reported.
Last August Porter and June reported in The New England Journal of Medicine that within a month they had driven the cancers in two of three
leukemia patients into remission.
2011: Another success makes headlines: David Porter and Carl June report that immune cells modified with gene therapy had cured two
terminal leukemia patients of their cancer.
«The most exciting outcome of these studies is that this drug also started a new phase III clinical trial, and if successful, it can lead to FDA approval to
treat leukemia patients.»
Final results of a cohort from a phase II monotherapy trial of quizartinib in acute myeloid
leukemia patients showed that more than half of patients 60 years of age and older who harbored an internal tandem duplication in the FMS - like tyrosine kinase 3 had a composite complete remission.
Furthermore, PPAM induced apoptosis and inhibited self - renewal of stem cells from
chemoresistant leukemia patients, while progenitor cells were resistant [66].
A mutation that leads to relapse in
many leukemia patients also causes a weakness that could be exploited to kill the cancer cells, Columbia researchers have reported.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators report preventive antibiotic therapy, particularly with levofloxacin, reduced the odds of infections in at - risk pediatric
leukemia patients early in cancer treatment
Its climax, which finds Deborah escaping hospital restraints to wander off with a 10 - year - old
leukemia patient doesn't generate much suspense or interest either.
On October 9, 2013 Ariad Pharmaceuticals announced a higher rate of blood clots
among leukemia patients who took Iclusig.
* Justin Bieber was late to a Salt Lake City concert on Saturday night because he dropped in to a children's hospital to visit 7 - year - old
leukemia patient Millie Flamm.
The former produced a complete response (meaning all visible signs of the cancer had disappeared) in 75 % of difficult - to - treat acute
lymphoblastic leukemia patients and even stronger results (90 % complete response) in those who were very early in their disease.
Killing cancer cells indirectly by powering up fat cells in the bone marrow could help acute
myeloid leukemia patients, according to a new study from McMaster University.
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.
Researchers at Houston Methodist used computer modeling to find an existing investigational drug compound
for leukemia patients to treat triple negative breast cancer once it spreads to the brain.
The short - lived cancer therapy has since been replaced in
leukemia patients by other drugs such as methotrexate, which is easier to produce, has a longer shelf life and has fewer side effects (it can be toxic to the liver, but damage in many cases can be reversed or reduced if patients stop taking it).
The McMaster - led study was conducted over the past three and half years and started from observations
of leukemia patients.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital leads study showing that a drug withdrawn from the market in 2010 may enhance the effectiveness of bone marrow transplants for select pediatric leukemia patients
The story of «Batkid» Miles Scott, the 5 - year - old
leukemia patient who got to live his dream to be a superhero courtesy of the Make - A-Wish Foundation and much of San Francisco, is both the subject of a documentary, Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Round the World, and an upcoming narrative feature film in which Julia Roberts is set to star and produce.
Just two weeks earlier Porter and his colleague Carl June had injected three
leukemia patients with genetically modified versions of their own immune cells to seek and destroy their cancer.
Dr. Pomerantz and colleagues are the first to show that the selective inhibition of RAD52 with a small molecule known as 6 - hydroxy - DL - dopa (6 - OH - dopa) can block the growth of BRCA - deficient cancer cells in vitro, including cells obtained
from leukemia patients.
IBM's Watson for example, a super-computer powered by AI diagnosed
a leukemia patient within a matter of minutes by studying her medical information and comparing it to 20 million records on the system.
VENLO, Netherlands — German forward Lennart Thy will miss a week's training with VVV Venlo and the Dutch side's next league game in order to help
a leukemia patient.
The club says Thy, who is on loan from German side Werder Bremen, requested the week off so he can donate blood to enable doctors to generate stem cells that could make a transplant possible for
a leukemia patient and possibly save their life.
He is
a leukemia patient at Roswell Park.
Speaking at a rally in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton told the story of
a leukemia patient named Steven who «ditched his oxygen tank,» as Clinton told it, to vote early.