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December 23, 2011
Leukemia patients at greatest risk of listeriosis
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with certain conditions, including leukemia, other cancers and pregnancy, are at the greatest risk of getting sick from the food-borne bacterium Listeria, French researchers report in a new study.
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December 14, 2011
Kids' leukemia risk tied to dads' smoking
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children whose fathers smoked have at least a 15 percent higher risk of developing the most common form of childhood cancer, a new Australian study finds.
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October 11, 2011
FDA warns leukemia drug may raise lung risks
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August 11, 2011
Gene therapy shown to destroy leukemia tumors
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to successfully destroy cancer tumors in patients with advanced disease -- a goal that has taken 20 years to achieve.
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June 2, 2011
Leukemia drug tied to impaired growth in kids
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children taking the drug Gleevec for a rare form of childhood leukemia may show a slow-down in their growth -- at least if they start the drug before puberty, a new study suggests.
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May 6, 2011
Study finds no leukemia link to UK nuclear plants
LONDON (Reuters) - A 35-year British scientific study has found no evidence that young children living near nuclear power plants have an increased risk of developing leukemia.
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February 2, 2011
Some vaccines tied to lower kids' leukemia risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Kids who have had certain vaccines might be less likely to develop cancer, especially one type of leukemia, suggests a new study.
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October 20, 2010
Some with leukemia can safely stop Gleevec
LONDON (Reuters) - Some leukemia patients may be effectively cured by taking modern cancer pills, giving a small minority of patients the option of discontinuing treatment, French researchers said on Wednesday.
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January 11, 2010
Scientists find new leukemia gene risk factors
LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers have found four new genetic variants that increase the risk of contracting one of the major forms of leukemia, confirming that risk factors for the fatal blood cancer can be inherited.
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August 24, 2009
Teens, young adults with leukemia living longer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adolescents and young adults with leukemia or lymphoma still fare worse than children with these blood cancers, but new research shows things are getting better.
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August 6, 2009
Pesticides linked to childhood leukemia risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exposure to common pesticides may play some role in the risk of the most frequent form of childhood leukemia, a small study suggests.
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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 4, 2009
Green tea ingredient may fight incurable leukemia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A chemical found in green tea may shrink lymph nodes and reduce white blood cell counts in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows.
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May 27, 2009
FDA staff questions data on leukemia drug
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. drug reviewers questioned whether a proposed leukemia drug from GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Genmab provides enough benefit to warrant approval, documents released on Wednesday said.
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April 30, 2009
Leukemia risk seen with MS drug mitoxantrone
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An Italian study confirms that people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are treated with the drug mitoxantrone have an increased risk of developing acute leukemia. Furthermore, it seems that the risk is significantly higher than previously reported.
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December 18, 2008
Fatal attraction: How leukemia seduces blood cells
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Leukemia cells use powerful chemical signals to lure healthy blood-forming stem cells into their cancerous lairs, where they lose their power to make healthy blood cells, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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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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December 9, 2008
Novartis leukemia drugs show promise
ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis AG's cancer drug Tasigna was effective and helped achieve rapid responses as an initial therapy in newly diagnosed patients with a life threatening form of leukemia, the company said.
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December 8, 2008
Genentech drug boosts leukemia patient survival
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A combination of Genentech Inc's cancer drug Rituxan and chemotherapy reduces by 41 percent the risk of death or cancer progression, compared with chemotherapy alone, for patients with a common form of leukemia, the company said on Saturday.
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November 28, 2008
Scientists track genetic changes in leukemia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Distinctive genetic changes occur in the cancer cells that trigger relapse in patients with the most common type of childhood cancer, according to a study that may offer new hope for beating the disease.
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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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October 23, 2008
Leukemia drug appears to stop early stage MS
LONDON (Reuters) - A drug developed to fight leukemia appears to stop multiple sclerosis in its early stages and restore lost function to patients, British researchers said on Wednesday.
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September 3, 2008
Leukemia tough on Down's kids.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - It's well known that the genetic abnormality that causes Down's syndrome also puts these children at increased risk for leukemia. Now comes word that leukemia is also harder to treat successfully in kids with Down's syndrome than in other children.
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August 1, 2008
Methadone promising in hard-to-treat leukemia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Methadone, a drug used to treat people addicted to heroin and other opioid drugs, holds promise as a new treatment for leukemia, especially treatment-resistant leukemia, according to results of a study.
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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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July 18, 2008
Home radon may have tie to childhood leukemia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who live in homes with high radon levels may be at increased risk for acute lymphoblastic leukemia during childhood, but not other childhood cancers, research from Denmark suggests.
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June 20, 2008
Approach enlists immune system to fight leukemia
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Leukemia patients may be able to avoid developing resistance to the drug Gleevec through a mathematical formula that predicts when they should receive an immune-boosting vaccine, researchers said on Thursday.
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April 29, 2008
Daycare may protect kids from leukemia: study
LONDON (Reuters) - Sending children to day-care at an early age could protect them against leukemia, perhaps by exposing them to certain infections, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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March 21, 2008
Cephalon wins U.S. approval for leukemia drug
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cephalon Inc won U.S. approval to sell a chemotherapy drug to treat patients with a slow-growing type of leukemia, the company said on Thursday.
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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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December 10, 2007
Experimental drug works in type of leukemia
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cephalon Inc's experimental cancer drug Treanda was significantly more effective than a common chemotherapy agent in helping patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who had not received prior treatment achieve remission, according to a late-stage study.
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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 30, 2007
Leukemia therapy can impair school performance
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain treatments may affect the scholastic achievement of childhood leukemia survivors, Finnish researchers report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. However, many of these treated children do not appear to be disadvantaged.
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August 9, 2007
Exercise rate low in childhood leukemia survivors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests that many adult survivors of childhood leukemia get little or no exercise, a fact that may boost their already elevated risks of long-term health problems.
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July 27, 2007
Study links radio towers to child leukemia risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who live close to an AM radio transmission tower may have an elevated risk of leukemia, a study suggests.
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July 9, 2007
China stops sale of drug to treat leukemia, arthritis
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's drug safety watchdog has suspended sales of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, the latest in a string of food and drug security scandals.
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June 4, 2007
Arsenic trioxide boosts survival in leukemia
CHICAGO (Reuters Health) - In adults with newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), the addition of arsenic trioxide to standard therapy significantly improves survival, according to a phase III study presented over the weekend at the 43rd annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
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March 23, 2007
Leukemia outcomes improved in adolescents
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adolescents with a certain type of leukemia called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treated on Dana-Farber Cancer Institute treatment protocols have better outcomes than published results from other studies, research suggests.
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March 21, 2007
Cancer monitoring needed for leukemia survivors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Thirty years after treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, survivors remain at increased risk for developing a second cancer, according to a new report.
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March 12, 2007
Early infection tied to leukemia risk in childhood
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The chances of children being diagnosed with leukemia seem to be related to the number of infections they had in their first year of life, research from the UK suggests.