Kinase inhibitors could provide an effective way to treat high-risk leukaemia – News-Medical.Net

Australian scientists have found what could prove to be a new and effective way to treat a particularly aggressive blood cancer in children.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, is the most common cancer diagnosed in children. Despite dramatic improvements in the survival of children with ALL over past several decades, children who develop ‘high risk’ ALL – subtypes that grow aggressively and are often resistant to standard treatments – often relapse, and many of these children die from their disease.
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