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Among patients with severe aplastic anemia who received stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor, longer leukocyte (white blood cells) telomere length (a structure at the end of a chromosome)...
Iron supplementation improves hemoglobin recovery time following blood donation
2/11/2015
Among blood donors with normal hemoglobin levels, low-dose oral iron supplementation, compared with no supplementation, reduced the time to recovery of the postdonation decrease in hemoglobin...
An international joint effort between University of Helsinki and Pfizer researchers has led to the discovery of a new opportunity to treat drug-resistant leukemia with an approved renal cancer drug.
Ninety per cent approve of cancer screening but screening uptake is lower, UK
2/11/2015
Nine in 10 people think that cancer screening is 'almost always a good idea' despite the fact that screening uptake is lower, a Cancer Research UK study* in the British Journal of Cancer shows.
UK researchers have launched an ambitious project to analyse samples from over 20,000 blood cancer patients to identify how differences in their cancer cells' DNA can influence the success of...
Among patients with severe aplastic anemia who received stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor, longer leukocyte (white blood cells) telomere length (a structure at the end of a chromosome)...
Iron supplementation improves hemoglobin recovery time following blood donation
2/11/2015
Among blood donors with normal hemoglobin levels, low-dose oral iron supplementation, compared with no supplementation, reduced the time to recovery of the postdonation decrease in hemoglobin...
A new opportunity to treat drug-resistant leukemia discovered
2/11/2015
A public-private research collaboration leads to an unexpected discovery in patients with drug-resistant leukemiaA study led by researchers at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland FIMM...
UCSF-led study shows why some targeted cancer drugs lose effectiveness
2/11/2015
A protein called YAP, which drives the growth of organs during development and regulates their size in adulthood, plays a key role in the emergence of resistance to targeted cancer therapies...
Many mastectomy patients with locally advanced breast cancer do not get postop radiation
2/11/2015
Journal of the American College of Surgeons study finds this gap in the standard of care is unrelated to socioeconomic factorsBreast cancer patients who undergo a mastectomy should receive...