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Researchers identify new path to defeating chronic myelogenous leukemia – News-Medical.Net
Researchers have identified a second path to defeating chronic myelogenous leukemia, which tends to affect older adults, even in the face of resistance to existing drugs.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 18 2020
Researchers have identified a second path to defeating chronic myelogenous leukemia, which tends to affect older adults, even in the face of resistance to existing drugs.
The new findings were published on September 17th in Nature Communications.
Almost all patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, have a faulty, cancer-causing gene, or “oncogene” called BCR-ABL1. BCR-ABL1 turns a regular stem cell (a unique type of cell that can turn in…
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