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Study shows early success of a novel drug in treating a rare and chronic blood cancer
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Study shows early success of a novel drug in treating a rare and chronic blood cancer

by The Mount Sinai Hospital blood donationCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA novel treatment for polycythemia vera, a potentially fatal blood cancer, demonstrated the ability to control overproduction of red blood cells, the hallmark of this malignancy and many of its debilitating symptoms in a multi-center clinical trial led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...

Study reveals how chronic blood cancer transitions to aggressive disease
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Study reveals how chronic blood cancer transitions to aggressive disease

by Julia Evangelou Strait,  Washington University School of Medicine A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests a strategy for preventing a chronic, slow-growing type of blood cancer from progressing to an aggressive form of leukemia. Shown is bone marrow from a mouse treated with a compound that blocks DUSP6, a key...