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**SkHukV3N** · 08-31-2012, 09:19 AM

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"Researchers prove that leukemias arise from changes that accumulate in blood stem cells August 30, 2012 by Christopher Vaughan in Cancer

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The research, published Aug. 29 in Science Translational Medicine, also sets the stage for the discovery of more effective therapies for defeating deadly cancers. People with acute leukemias—cancers of the blood—are especially difficult to cure. Although doctors can drive leukemias into remission with chemotherapy, most of these cancers eventually come roaring back. About 60 percent of those who get acute myelogenous leukemia will ultimately die from it, a statistic that has improved little in the past 30 years. Cancer is caused in part by genetic mutations, but cancer cells are often full of these mutations, some of which are important and some not. "Each cancer-causing mutation is potentially a therapeutic target ...

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SkHukV3N Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 455 Senior Member	http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-0...tem-cells.html "Researchers prove that leukemias arise from changes that accumulate in blood stem cells August 30, 2012 by Christopher Vaughan in Cancer Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-0...cells.html#jCp ... The research, published Aug. 29 in Science Translational Medicine, also sets the stage for the discovery of more effective therapies for defeating deadly cancers. People with acute leukemias—cancers of the blood—are especially difficult to cure. Although doctors can drive leukemias into remission with chemotherapy, most of these cancers eventually come roaring back. About 60 percent of those who get acute myelogenous leukemia will ultimately die from it, a statistic that has improved little in the past 30 years. Cancer is caused in part by genetic mutations, but cancer cells are often full of these mutations, some of which are important and some not. "Each cancer-causing mutation is potentially a therapeutic target ... Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-0...cells.html#jCp ...
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