Combination therapy targets stubborn leukaemia stem cells

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 15:41 in Health & Medicine

New research discovers a combination of drugs that may prove to be a more effective treatment for a lethal form of leukaemia. The study, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Cancer Cell, reports that the new therapeutic strategy effectively targets notoriously intractable leukaemia stem cells that often escape standard treatment and are a main factor in disease relapse...

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