by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Graphical abstract. Credit: Molecular & Cellular Proteomics (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2023.100503 A team of researchers has discovered a potential therapeutic that can synergize with existing drugs to more effectively kill certain leukemia cells. The authors published their results in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. Acute myeloid leukemia is a cancer of developing immune cells. It can manifest...
by Gina Mantica, Children’s Hospital Boston Lynn Aureli hopes to inspire others in her new position as an oncology nurse at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Credit: Michael Goderre, Boston Children’s Hospital As a child, Lynn Aureli didn’t know that a particular genetic change contributed to her acute myeloid leukemia (AML)—an alteration that eventually would help explain...
by Kiel University In AML, an early precursor of the so-called myeloid cells degenerates; these so-called blasts (in purple, 63x magnification) subsequently multiply uncontrollably. Credit: Dr. med. Lars Fransecky, UKSH Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a malignant disease of the hematopoietic system that originates from immature precursors of red blood cells, platelets and part of...
by Elana Gotkine HealthDay Reporter Progression-free survival is significantly longer with zanubrutinib than ibrutinib among patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), according to a study published online Dec. 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Jennifer R. Brown, M.D., Ph.D., from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston,...
Roxanne Nelson, RN, BSN November 08, 2022 A novel approach in which two products were co-administered achieved a 99% complete response rate in children with relapsed or treatment-resistant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). In this trial, the largest study to date of a CAR T-cell therapy for such patients, the researchers co-administered two CAR T-cell therapies, one targeting...
by Haleigh Ehmsen, Northwestern University Response rates in all FLT3mut patients treated at any dose (n = 56) and in those who did (n = 35) or did not (n = 21) receive prior treatment with a FLT3 TKI. mCRc was defined as CR + CRi + CRp per criteria used in the ADMIRAL study. CR, complete...
by Sarah Avery, Duke University Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111268 In animal studies led by researchers at Duke Cancer Institute, a drug approved to treat leukemia successfully disrupted the ability of HER2-positive breast cancer tumors from colonizing the brain. The finding, appearing online Aug. 30 in the journal Cell Reports, provides evidence for human trials and...
by Kevin McCullough, Northwestern University Loss of IL-6 rescues multi-organ leukemia infiltrations in DKO mice. (A) Microarray gene expression data of bone marrow CD34+ cells from 47 MDS patients. Housekeeping genes GAPDH and ACTB were plotted to demonstrate the modest raw intensity without normalization. TNNT2 and CD34 were plotted as negative and positive controls, respectively. Data...
by Joe Rojas-Burke, Oregon Health & Science University Graphical abstract. Credit: Cancer Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2022.07.002 Acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, is the most common acute blood cancer in adults—and one of the most difficult to treat. Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered a potential new target for stopping it: a gene that, when active,...
by University of Glasgow Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Leukemia is often the result of the disruption to the fine balance in blood cell production where new cells are manufactured and old blood cells die. As we age, mutations in blood stem cells can mean that the altered cells can have a growth benefit over other blood cells and outnumber...
