WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — KU School of Medicine-Wichita Department of Pediatrics and Wesley Children’s Hospital say a groundbreaking treatment for pediatric leukemia is now available in Wichita.

The classification of AML is based on the French-American-British system in which morphologic and immunophenotypic features of blast cells divide AML into 8 distinct subtypes labeled M0-M7. M3 is the ...

Two years ago, Lianna Munir started spiking fevers and having fainting spells. At first doctors thought Munir, then 6, may have strep or a viral infection. But even after multiple trips to the ...

Survival rates for childhood leukemia are improving thanks to new treatments. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia has the highest survival among all pediatric cancers, 80-85 percent. Seattle Children’s ...

Blinatumomab significantly improved disease-free survival in children with B-ALL, with a 61% increase, establishing a new standard for treatment. Hispanic children, who have higher B-ALL rates, ...

Researchers found that the outcomes were excellent for the 178 end of first consolidation measurable residual disease (MRD)-negative patients, regardless of MRD results at later time points. HealthDay ...

“The advancement of novel therapies like CAR-T in relapsed and refractory pediatric B-ALL is truly a beacon of hope for children and young adults with a previously dismal prognosis.” Following the ...

Treatment modifications and mortality among female patients with subsequent breast cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS). Accelerated aging among survivors of childhood ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) – A group of scientists are on a mission towards creating a vaccine that could prevent leukemia. Dr. Cameron Tebbi, Lead Research Scientist, Dr. Richard Gunderman, Retired Pediatric ...

(A) Overview of the cohort, including all de novo acute megakaryoblastic leukemia subtypes (n = 75), compared with mononuclear cells derived from the bone marrow (BM) of non-cancer donors under 18 ...