Double assault on tough types of leukemias
Friday, September 21, 2012 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
Investigators have identified two promising therapies to treat patients with acute megakaryocytic leukemia, a rare form of leukemia where the number of cases is expected to increase with the aging population. One of the drugs, Alisertib, was potent against the proliferation of cancer cells and reversed the disease in mice. Clinical trials are slated for 2013.