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Low-Calorie Diet, Mild Exercise May Improve Survival For Leukemia Adolescents: Study
According to the study, in some cancers including leukemia in children and adolescents, obesity can negatively affect survival outcomes.
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International Childhood Cancer Day: Know The Early Symptoms Of Leukemia In Children
International Childhood Cancer Day 2021: Leukaemia is a type of blood cancer that affects a large number of children worldwide. Read here to know more about this type of cancer.
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Leukemia: Understanding Cancer, Its Causes And Treatment Options
Leukemia: The body makes more white blood cells than it needs when it has leukemia. These leukemia cells cannot fight infection like normal white blood cells. And because they are in large numbers, they begin affecting the way organs work.
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Can DNA Tests Help Prescribe Antidepressants?
Doctors increasingly use information about genes to evaluate potential risk for some diseases, such as BRCA genes that are linked to breast cancer, and to determine the best drug treatment for diseases, including acute leukemia and HIV. But using pharmacogenetics to help treat depression remains controversial.
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World Cancer Day 2019: What Is Childhood Cancer? What Are The Symptoms? Know All This And More By A Top Oncologist
The common cancers of childhood are blood cancers (leukemia), lymph cancers (lymphoma), brain cancers, muscle/bone cancers (sarcoma) and tumours of kidney (Wilms tumour)
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FDA Approves New Drug For Leukemia
AML is a rapidly progressing cancer that crowds out normal cells in the bone marrow and bloodstream, resulting in low numbers of normal blood cells and a continuous need for transfusions, reports Xinhua news agency.
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Early Signs And Symptoms Of Blood Cancer You Should Not Miss
Symptoms of such blood cancer usually come and go slowly. Read below to know some common kinds of blood cancer and the symptoms they give.
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Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Everything You Need To Know
Acute Myeloid Leukemia develops in the bone marrow which is the inner, soft part of a bone. When this disease develops, the cells of bone marrow do not mature the way they should. Due to this, the immature cells continue to grow. Here's everything you need to know about AML.
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Excessively Clean Environments Can Increase Risk Of Childhood Leukemia: Know Other Risk Factors Of Leukemia
Childhood leukemia activates in children when they live in exceptionally clean homes during the initial few years and then suddenly get exposed to infections. Take note of other risk factors of childhood leukemia.
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The Potential Of Dandelion Root In Fighting Cancer
Dandelion root extract (DRE) is said to be beneficial for people who are suffering from leukemia, pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer. It is an alternative and gentler treatment to surgical treatments of cancer or chemotherapy.
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Glenmark Gets US Regulator's Nod For Leukemia Treatment Drug
The company's current portfolio consists of 112 products authorised for distribution in the US marketplace and 63 ANDA pending approval with the US regulator.
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Mom Accused Of Injecting Faeces Into Cancer-Afflicted Son's IV
In a shocking incident, a mother in the US has been accused of injecting faecal matter into her 15-year-old son's intravenous bag and endangering his life while he was undergoing cancer treatments at a hospital.
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Brain Cancer Now Deadliest For US Children: Study
Brain cancer is now the deadliest form of childhood cancer in the United States, surpassing leukemia as treatment advances have allowed doctors to cure many blood-related cancers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
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He Beat Leukemia, But Then, Mysteriously, Things Got Really Bad
Richard McGhee, , a retired case officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who lives near Annapolis, Md., had spent six months battling leukemia as part of a clinical trial at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The experimental chemotherapy regimen he was given had worked spectacularly, driving his blood cancer into a complete remission. But le...
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Glenmark Gets Approval From US Health Regulator For Two Drugs
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received final approval from the US health regulator USFDA for oral contraceptives and leukemia treatment injection.
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Low-Calorie Diet, Mild Exercise May Improve Survival For Leukemia Adolescents: Study
According to the study, in some cancers including leukemia in children and adolescents, obesity can negatively affect survival outcomes.
-
International Childhood Cancer Day: Know The Early Symptoms Of Leukemia In Children
International Childhood Cancer Day 2021: Leukaemia is a type of blood cancer that affects a large number of children worldwide. Read here to know more about this type of cancer.
-
Leukemia: Understanding Cancer, Its Causes And Treatment Options
Leukemia: The body makes more white blood cells than it needs when it has leukemia. These leukemia cells cannot fight infection like normal white blood cells. And because they are in large numbers, they begin affecting the way organs work.
-
Can DNA Tests Help Prescribe Antidepressants?
Doctors increasingly use information about genes to evaluate potential risk for some diseases, such as BRCA genes that are linked to breast cancer, and to determine the best drug treatment for diseases, including acute leukemia and HIV. But using pharmacogenetics to help treat depression remains controversial.
-
World Cancer Day 2019: What Is Childhood Cancer? What Are The Symptoms? Know All This And More By A Top Oncologist
The common cancers of childhood are blood cancers (leukemia), lymph cancers (lymphoma), brain cancers, muscle/bone cancers (sarcoma) and tumours of kidney (Wilms tumour)
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FDA Approves New Drug For Leukemia
AML is a rapidly progressing cancer that crowds out normal cells in the bone marrow and bloodstream, resulting in low numbers of normal blood cells and a continuous need for transfusions, reports Xinhua news agency.
-
Early Signs And Symptoms Of Blood Cancer You Should Not Miss
Symptoms of such blood cancer usually come and go slowly. Read below to know some common kinds of blood cancer and the symptoms they give.
-
Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Everything You Need To Know
Acute Myeloid Leukemia develops in the bone marrow which is the inner, soft part of a bone. When this disease develops, the cells of bone marrow do not mature the way they should. Due to this, the immature cells continue to grow. Here's everything you need to know about AML.
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Excessively Clean Environments Can Increase Risk Of Childhood Leukemia: Know Other Risk Factors Of Leukemia
Childhood leukemia activates in children when they live in exceptionally clean homes during the initial few years and then suddenly get exposed to infections. Take note of other risk factors of childhood leukemia.
-
The Potential Of Dandelion Root In Fighting Cancer
Dandelion root extract (DRE) is said to be beneficial for people who are suffering from leukemia, pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer. It is an alternative and gentler treatment to surgical treatments of cancer or chemotherapy.
-
Glenmark Gets US Regulator's Nod For Leukemia Treatment Drug
The company's current portfolio consists of 112 products authorised for distribution in the US marketplace and 63 ANDA pending approval with the US regulator.
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Mom Accused Of Injecting Faeces Into Cancer-Afflicted Son's IV
In a shocking incident, a mother in the US has been accused of injecting faecal matter into her 15-year-old son's intravenous bag and endangering his life while he was undergoing cancer treatments at a hospital.
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Brain Cancer Now Deadliest For US Children: Study
Brain cancer is now the deadliest form of childhood cancer in the United States, surpassing leukemia as treatment advances have allowed doctors to cure many blood-related cancers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
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He Beat Leukemia, But Then, Mysteriously, Things Got Really Bad
Richard McGhee, , a retired case officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who lives near Annapolis, Md., had spent six months battling leukemia as part of a clinical trial at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The experimental chemotherapy regimen he was given had worked spectacularly, driving his blood cancer into a complete remission. But le...
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Glenmark Gets Approval From US Health Regulator For Two Drugs
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received final approval from the US health regulator USFDA for oral contraceptives and leukemia treatment injection.
