leukemia

A new genetic screening process has helped researchers understand the genetic causes of cancer, such as how mutations accumulated in a person’s life can cause leukemia. The study shows that...

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer in developed nations, affecting between 30 and 45 out of every one million kids.   But not much is known...

Treatment advances have dramatically increased the cure rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common diagnosed cancer in children, from less than 10% in the 1960’s to more than...

  Researchers have added chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common type of leukemia in western countries, to the long list of diseases that have been associated with common genetic...