Clinical Trial Results: Patients with Leukemia Show High Remission Rates after Immunotherapy
October 16, 2014
Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have published results of this study in Lancet.
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CHLA scientists work toward a new therapy to target resistant leukemia. Their study, recently published in the journal Leukemia, shows that these new CAR-T cells could be the answer to resistant
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Side Effects of Leukemia Treatment More Prevalent in Girls
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Sex-based differences in incidence and long-term outcomes have been well documented in pediatric cancer patients. Investigators at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have now discovered similar
Cancer Can Run But it Can’t Hide
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Actually, it can hide. CHLA’s Yong-Mi Kim tells us exactly how leukemia burrows within bone marrow, where it is shielded from cancer treatments. But given Kim’s breakthrough research on acute