Oncology & Cancer

How deadly brain cancer evades treatments

McMaster University researcher Sheila Singh and her team have discovered how glioblastoma, a lethal brain cancer, can evade treatments and kill.

Oncology & Cancer

Highlighting new innovations in early cancer detection

The latest special issue of PLOS Medicine features five studies outlining novel strategies for detecting cancer and for identifying minimal residual disease—when a small amount of tumor cells survive treatment, potentially ...

Medical research

Risk-directed childhood leukemia treatment takes a step forward

Comprehensive genomic analyses have helped researchers identify more than 20 subtypes of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) based on the genetic mutations that drive the disease. Research led by St. Jude Children's Research ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Favorable outcomes seen in long term for ALLR3 trial

(HealthDay)—For children with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia with late bone marrow relapse, risk stratification by minimal residual disease seems to be an effective strategy for treatment, according to a ...

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