First Molecular Steps To Childhood Leukemia Identified

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 01:28 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have identified how a chromosomal abnormality known to be associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia -- the most common cancer in children -- initiates the disease process. Chromosome reshuffling affecting blood stem cells leads to years-later cancer development.

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