Leukemia

Using Gene Chips, Scientists Identify Unique Form Of Disease

Published in Blood Weekly, December 20th, 2001

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have discovered that a rare but lethal blood cancer that strikes infants in their first year is a genetically distinct type of leukemia and might someday be treatable with designer drugs specifically targeted to it.

The discovery will help researchers single out the abnormal genes that make the leukemia so difficult to treat, as well as identifying new targets within the cancer cells for drugs that would be more selective than those used today. Nature Genetics published the findings on its web site on December 3, 2001, and it will appear in the January 2002 print edition.

"This finding is very exciting...

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