Leukemia is a form of cancer with an annual diagnosis rate of 14.1 people per 100,000 of the population, with nearly half of these cases (6.0 per 100,000) dying from the disease. People over 55 and under 15 are the population group in which this condition is most common.1 Leukemia is a systemic malignant (cancerous) […]

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Researchers have successfully tested a new treatment for drug-resistant acute lymphoblastic leukemia on a new mouse model. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common cancer in children and accounts for about 20% of adult leukemias. Even though there are a number of therapies that improve survival rates, some patients still experience recurrence of the disease […]

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Researchers from Purdue University in the United States developed a series of new compounds to treat acute myeloid leukemia and tested them in a preclinical study. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, over 1,300 Canadians were diagnosed with this aggressive leukemia in 2013, with nearly a thousand Canadians died from it. It is the most […]

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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia affects many older adults. Researchers from the United States recently tested Ibrutinib, a newly approved targeted drug, as a new leukemia treatment in a clinical study.   Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is a type of cancer that starts in blood stem cells, in which the bone marrow makes too many white blood cell. […]

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Medical scientists in the United States have discovered the key protein responsible for childhood leukemia. They discussed their findings in Genes & Development. Childhood leukemia, the most common cancer of children in Canada, is a cancer of the white blood cells. Leukemia develops when abnormal white blood cells form in the bone marrow. These abnormal […]

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A recent study has shown extremely promising results highlighting the success of combining a targeted therapy and chemotherapies to treat acute myeloid leukemia in older patients. Acute myeloid leukemia is a type of blood cancer that originates in bone marrow, the site for the formation of blood cells in the body. This type of cancer […]

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Researchers at Newcastle University in England have recently discovered that an approved breast cancer drug could be used as a leukemia treatment. Every year, approximately 2,500 people die as a result of acute myeloid leukemia in the United Kingdom and around 3,100 new cases of the disease are identified each year. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) […]

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A recent study published in Science Translational Medicine showed that statins, which are common cholesterol-lowering drugs, were able to prime blood cancer cells to be more easily eliminated. Leukemia describes blood cancers that begin in the bone marrow, where blood cells are made, and result in the accumulation of many abnormal white blood cells. There […]

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