Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Leukemia genetic treatment

  • No known treatment could save him. And no one, to their knowledge, had ever investigated the complete genetic makeup of a cancer like adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, he asked? "It's now or never," he recalled telling them.
  • (New York Times)
  • Dr. Lukas Wartman may be the worlds luckiest cancer patient.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Im Dr. Maurie Markman from Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia [1] The paper was titled Prognostic Relevance of Integrated Genetic Profiling in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
  • (Medscape News)
  • University who developed leukemia. As he faced death last Fall, his cancer genome was sequenced by his colleagues. What was revealed then led to a treatment plan that targeted the specifics of his genetic makeup.
  • (Boing Boing (blog))
  • He was deteriorating fast. No known treatment could save him. And no one, to their knowledge, had ever investigated the complete genetic makeup of a cancer like his.
  • (ModernHealthcare.com)
  • No known treatment could save him. And no one, to their knowledge, had ever investigated the complete genetic makeup of a cancer like adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, he asked? Its now or never, he recalled telling them.
  • (Times of India)
  • A novel method known as whole genome sequencing focuses on the genes that drive a cancer, not the tissues or organ. Pro portfolios track the top 15 quarterly holdings of more than 1,400 institutions.
  • (tickerspy.com)
  • No known treatment could save him. And no one, to their knowledge, had ever investigated the complete genetic makeup of a cancer like his adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, he asked? "It's now or never," he recalled telling them.
  • (Sierra Vista Herald)
  • Despite advances in the treatment of this disease, the outcome of patients with this type of leukemia is very poor because it develops resistance to standard therapies, he says.
  • (Science Daily)
  • The Leukemia Lymphoma Society said that treatment is imperative immediately after diagnosis with this kind of leukemia.
  • (Huffington Post)

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