Olivia Knowles, from Blackpool, has undergone more than five gruelling treatments to destroy the blood cancer , but none have ...

A Perth mum is giving her little brother the ultimate Christmas present ... is donating her stem cells to her brother Timothy Davison, who was diagnosed with leukemia seven months ago.

A hair salon boss from Poulton who was making good progress after a leukemia diagnosis 18 months ... and undergoing chemotherapy just before Christmas that year. She had felt a little tired ...

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana ...

A new study has identified a novel strategy for treating acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer for which the median survival time following diagnosis remains just 8.5 months.

Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers report. The aptamers -- short single ...

Indeed, a subtype of AML—acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)—is already treated this way using a pair of drugs (all-trans retinoic acid and arsenic trioxide) that shove APL cells down the ...

Drug-delivering aptamers that can precisely target leukemia stem cells with enhanced potency have been developed. Delivering anticancer drugs with specificity and potency to cancer stem cells is an ...

B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) is a life-threatening and highly aggressive form of blood cancer. It is the most common childhood cancer, making up 35% of pediatric cancer cases ...