Pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is curable without preventive cranial radiation
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 05:21
in Health & Medicine
Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) can be successfully treated using a carefully personalised chemotherapy regimen without cranial radiation, investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found. Such radiation of the brain was once a standard ALL treatment to prevent recurrence of the leukaemia in the central nervous system (CNS)...