New Knowledge About Bone Marrow Transplants Can Help Leukemia Patients
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 20:14
in Health & Medicine
Acute lymphatic leukemia is the most common form of blood cancer in children. Even though chemotherapy is improving, the cancer often returns. New research shows that cancer cells that have been exposed to chemotherapy and survived are less vulnerable to chemotherapy, and more aggressive as well. But this research also yielded discoveries that should be able to enhance our treatment of the disease.