Clinical importance of leukemia stem cells validated by new study

Sunday, August 28, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

New research focuses on patients and shows that acute myeloid leukemia (AML) contains rare cells with stem cell properties, called leukemia stem cells (LSC), that are better at predicting clinical outcome than the majority of AML cells, showing for the first time that LSCs are significant not just in experimental models but also in patients.

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