Contact: Leslie Orr Leslie_Orr@urmc.rochester.edu 585-275-5774 University of Rochester Medical Center OCT 2007 Rochester team develops compound to attack cancer stem cells A new, easily ingested form of a compound that has already shown it can attack the roots of leukemia… Read More ›
Acute myeloid leukemia
Chemotherapy contributes to relapse in cancer patients by damaging DNA and generating new mutations that allow tumor cells to evolve and become resistant to treatment.
The chemotherapy drugs required to push a common form of adult leukemia into remission may contribute to DNA damage that can lead to a relapse of the disease in some patients, findings of a new study suggest. The research, by… Read More ›