Mutations linked to relapse of childhood leukemia discovered

Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 16:31 in Health & Medicine

After an intensive three-year hunt through the genome, medical researchers have pinpointed mutations that leads to drug resistance and relapse in the most common type of childhood cancer —- the first time anyone has linked the disease’s reemergence to specific genetic anomalies.

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