Leukemia

Methotrexate (MTX) during maintenance therapy is essential to cure acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but dosing strategies to achieve adequate treatment intensity are challenged by inter-individual differences in drug...

Our objectives were to design and validate methods to identify relapse and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) using administrative data representing...

The WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer aims to increase survival to at least 60% for all children with cancer globally, with initial focus on six common curable cancer types. Frequent causes of treatment failure in low...

The frequency of cognitive difficulties in childhood cancer survivors varies according to the measurement strategy. The goal of this research is to (1) describe agreements and differences between measures of working memory and...

Many studies have shown that the spatial distribution of genes within a single chromosome exhibits distinct patterns. However, little is known about the characteristics of inter-chromosomal distribution of genes (including...

Panobinostat demonstrates activity against pediatric cancers in vitro. A phase I trial in children with refractory hematologic malignancies was conducted. The trial evaluated two schedules of oral panobinostat using 3 + 3 dose...

The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess outcomes of cats referred to a specialized adoption program for feline leukemia virus (FeLV)-positive cats.Cats referred to an FeLV-specific adoption program between January...

We present the case of a patient with aplastic anemia (AA) who was treated with eltrombopag. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the disappearance of monosomy 7 after eltrombopag treatment. The patient was...