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March 13th, 2007

CDX2: Protein Promoting Leukemia

A protein known as CDX2 is inappropriately expressed in the leukemic cell of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to a study from Harvard Medical School appearing in the April print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
…gene encoding CDX2 is expressed in 90% of the patients with AML that they analyzed. Moreover, reducing […]

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September 23rd, 2006

High Dose QUADRAMET® and Chemotherapy-Combo, Showed Promise for the Treatment of High-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Cytogen Corporation (Nasdaq: CYTO) has recently published a new data related to its QUADRAMET® (samarium Sm-153 lexidronam injection) product, in an article by Vilmarie Rodriguez, M.D. (a Pediatric Oncologist at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota) entitled “Marrow irradiation with high-dose 153 Samarium-EDTMP followed by chemotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell infusion for acute myelogenous leukemia” […]

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