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Spanish Study Discovered New Line of Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

by Gloria Gamat on February 16th, 2007

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common cancer in children. In such cases when the WNT pathway becomes altered, administration of medication like quercetine or Decitabine® normalizes this cell control pathway.

With this group of medicines, chemotherapy results are enhanced and survival rates improved.

Such were the findings of Spanish Scientists as described in the journal Blood – the official journal of the American Haematology Association.

The findings will the basis of the clinical trials that will be pursued next in order to validate this newly discovered line of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Find more details from the press release.

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