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Diagnosis and Management of Acute and Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease
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Vitamin D may affect outcome in cancer patients
Cancer patients with higher levels of vitamin D at diagnosis tend to have better outcomes than patients who are vitamin D-deficient, a meta-...
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FDA approves new formulation of mercaptopurine
Credit: Bill Branson The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an oral suspension of mercaptopurine (Purixan), a drug used in...
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Approval of mercaptopurine suspension will facilitate pediatric dosing
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Team uncovers novel function of p53
Andrei Thomas Tikhonenko Investigators have uncovered a novel role for the tumor suppressor p53, according to a paper published in Nature Cell...
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New insight into PTEN’s role in cancers
Researchers say they’ve uncovered new details that help explain how the PTEN gene exerts its anticancer effects and how PTEN loss or alteration...
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Group maps B-cell development
New technology has allowed scientists to create the most comprehensive map of B-cell development to date, according to a paper published in Cell...
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Drug confers benefits for subset of AML patients
Credit: Rhoda Baer A drug that combines 2 chemotherapy agents into 1 can be more effective than treatment with the individual agents in...
Conference Coverage
Leukemic breast tumors may cause resistance in AML, ALL
Isabel Cunningham, MD, of Columbia University in New York, has found evidence to suggest that treatment resistance in leukemia patients may...
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Protein helps HSP90 inhibitors fight cancers
Credit: PNAS Researchers have discovered how a molecule called CUL5 helps HSP90 inhibitors kill cancer cells, according to a study published in...
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Embedded miRNA, not its host, drives AML, group says
Credit: Lance Liotta A small gene embedded in a larger gene appears to be the driving force behind acute myeloid leukemia (AML) development,...