Sentences with phrase «of pediatric leukemia»

Among children and teens, ALL is the most common, accounting for 75 % of pediatric leukemia cases.

Methotrexate exposure tied to reduced mental flexibility, planning and other executive function skills in long - term survivors of pediatric leukemia.

Not exact matches

«This approval will open the floodgates for these kinds of therapy to be used in many different leukemias, lymphomas, solid tumors, myelomas,» Dr. Prakash Satwani, a pediatric hematologist - oncologist at Columbia University Medical Center, told Business Insider.

Excluding type 2 diabetes (because of insufficient data), we conducted a cost analysis for all pediatric diseases for which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported risk ratios that favored breastfeeding: necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, gastroenteritis, hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood asthma, childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and childhood obesity.

«I am calling upon him to take those donations out of his $ 27 million campaign coffer and donate them to a worthy institution that treats children with life - threatening allergies who can't afford EpiPens or with pediatric cancers like leukemia and Hodgkin's who are suffering because of generic drug shortages that he causes,» Long said in a statement.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital leads study showing that a drug withdrawn from the market in 2010 may enhance the effectiveness of bone marrow transplants for select pediatric leukemia patients

These common chemotherapy drugs are used to treat a wide variety of pediatric cancers, including leukemias and cancers of the eye and nerves.

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.

«This condition is one of the main reasons that many bone marrow transplant patients endure long hospital stays after their diseases are cured,» said Kean, who wears a bracelet around her badge from a pediatric patient cured of leukemia one year ago, but is still in the hospital due to complications from GVHD.

Those findings are among results of six studies of investigational chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells for both adult and pediatric leukemias, adult lymphomas, and ovarian cancer which will be presented during the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting.

Seattle Childrens» press release says that Kean wears a bracelet around her badge from a pediatric patient cured of leukemia one year ago, but who is still in the hospital due to complications from graft - vs - host.

[3]-RRB- However, the presence of the Philadelphia (Ph) chromosome is not sufficiently specific to diagnose CML, since it is also found in acute lymphoblastic leukemia [4](aka ALL, 25 — 30 % of adult cases and 2 — 10 % of pediatric cases) and occasionally in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).

Removal of a fifth course of chemotherapy containing cytarabine resulted in worse overall survival and disease - free survival in pediatric patients with low - risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to the results (abstract 10515) of a pooled analysis of two Children's Oncology Group (COG) trials presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held June 2 — 6 in Chicago.

The use of minimal residual disease (MRD) provided a more objective measure of induction failure in patients with pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) than did morphology, according to the results of a study published recently in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Researchers reveal genetic secrets of a high - risk pediatric leukemia called Ph - ALL, and find treatment potential in the drug ruxolitinib.

«In our research project on pediatric leukemia we plan to use Gemcode to define the exact chromosomal breakpoints of large scale chromosomal rearrangements and repetitive sequences that are typical for leukemic cells, but are difficult to characterize in short sequence reads,» said Professor Ann - Christine Syvänen, who leads the Molecular Medicine group.

A phase I / II trial of genetically modified T cells directed against CD19 for pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed / refractory CD19 + leukemia (NCT02028455).

Whole genome and whole transcriptome sequencing of 31 pediatric Asian patients with T - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia found that about 10 percent had the same alteration in a non-coding region of DNA.

Arsenic trioxide (ATO) consolidation was well tolerated in pediatric patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and allowed for significant reductions in cumulative anthracycline doses, according to the results of the Children's Oncology Group AAML0631 trial published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

DATE: April 3 TIME: 4:05 p.m. LOCATION: Room 204, Level 2, Washington Convention Center TITLE: Comparison of somatic alterations in the genome and transcriptome of 1,705 pediatric leukemia and solid tumors: a report from the Children's Oncology Group (COG)- NCI TARGET Project ABSTRACT: 3004

He's studying how tumor heterogeneity affects treatment and the role of microRNAs in pediatric cancers and leukemia.

In January, TGI and its collaborators published three Nature papers that came online the same day: one on the genetic basis of an aggressive pediatric leukemia, another on genomic and epigenetic analyses of childhood retinoblastoma, and a third on tumor evolution in relapsed AML.

«This generous funding from ASH allows me to expand upon our exciting new findings regarding the genetic basis of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia and also provides essential support as I launch my independent career,» Maxson said.

A phase I / II trial of KTE - C19 (anti-CD19 CAR T cells) for pediatric and adolescent subjects with relapsed / refractory B - precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia -LRB-

Study 2, led by researchers in the U.S., analyzed the genomes and transcriptomes of 1,699 pediatric leukemias and solid tumors representing six histotypes.

Shaw PJ, Kan F, Woo Ahn K, Spellman SR, Aljurf M, Ayas M, Burke M, Cairo MS, Chen AR, Davies SM, Frangoul H, Gajewski J, Gale RP, Godder K, Hale GA, Heemskerk MB, Horan J, Kamani N, Kasow KA, Chan KW, Lee SJ, Leung WH, Lewis VA, Miklos D, Oudshoorn M, Petersdorf EW, Ringdén O, Sanders J, Schultz KR, Seber A, Setterholm M, Wall DA, Yu L, Pulsipher MA.Outcomes of pediatric bone marrow transplantation for leukemia and myelodysplasia using matched sibling, mismatched related, or matched unrelated donors.

Changes in an epigenetic mechanism that turns expression of genes on and off may be as important as genetic alterations in causing pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to a study led by scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and published in the June 10 online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

UT Southwestern Medical Center, in partnership with Children's Health, which is located on the same Dallas campus, has an excellent team of pediatric oncologists who treat pediatric blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma with the latest techniques.

Our own Naomi Winick, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, has held several leadership positions with COG and is involved in clinical trials for pediatric leukemia.

Our primary mission is to seek out and support experts and institutions dedicated to enhancing and improving the lives of people afflicted by mesothelioma, pediatric diabetes and pediatric leukemia.

[jounal] Best, M. / 2001 / Parental distress during pediatric leukemia and posttraumatic stress symptoms after treatment ends / Journal of Pediatric Psychology 26 (5): 299 ~ 307