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July 2, 2009
Birth weight appears associated with leukemia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There may be an association between high birth weight and an increased risk of overall leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The increased risk of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) appears to be associated with the high and low extremes of birth weight.
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June 16, 2009
Most patients want cancer prognosis test
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most patients with a form of eye cancer called choroidal melanoma want to undergo a genetic test that can predict their likely outcome, a small study suggests.
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December 9, 2008
Obesity does not affect leukemia treatment
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Obesity has little impact on the success of blood cell transplants for acute myeloid leukemia, the most common reason for performing such transplantations, according to study findings presented at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting in San Francisco.
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November 18, 2008
New study backs solvent, leukemia link
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Research from Italy provides new evidence that exposure to the industrial solvent benzene increases a person's risk of developing multiple myeloma.
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November 5, 2008
A cancer patient's genome decoded for first time
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists for the first time have decoded the entire genome of a cancer patient, identifying a series of genes never before linked to the type of white blood cell cancer that ultimately killed the woman.
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July 29, 2008
Sparing leukemia patients from unnecessary chemo
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly one-third of leukemia patients do not respond to chemotherapy, but this is not typically discovered until they have already endured a week-long course of chemotherapy and waited even longer to see if the chemotherapy worked.
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January 30, 2008
Nexavar shows promise in acute myeloid leukemia
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The kidney cancer pill Nexava, know generically as sorafenib, has shown promise in treating a small number of people with a type of blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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December 20, 2007
Leukemia in Down's kids linked to parental factors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There appears to be a relationship between infertility or infertility treatments in the parents and a risk of developing acute leukemia in children with Down's syndrome, researchers report.
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December 11, 2007
Leukemia vaccine triples event-free survival
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new leukemia vaccine under investigation extends patients' event-free survival by more than three-fold, from 2.4 month with convention treatment to 8.7 months, investigators at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston reported this week at the 49th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology underway in Atlanta.
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September 24, 2007
Older breast cancer patients face leukemia risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women with breast cancer who undergo chemotherapy have a small but significant increased risk of developing acute myeloid leukemia (AML), new research shows.
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August 30, 2007
High blood sugar ups mortality in leukemia patients
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High blood sugar levels increase the rate of in-hospital deaths by nearly 40 percent in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This increased mortality is seen even in patients with mild blood sugar elevations, according to results of a chart review.
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August 16, 2007
Control tobacco, food ads to beat cancer -panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - A new presidential report on cancer takes on not only tobacco companies but the food industry while calling on the federal government to "cease being a purveyor of unhealthy foods" and switch to policies that encourage Americans to eat vegetables and exercise.