Progress in preventing kidney cancer recurrence
Cancer “adjuvant” therapies are treatments designed to reduce the chances of tumors coming back after surgery. But for decades, attempts to find adjuvant treatments for kidney cancer failed to...
Tag: hematopoietic stem cells
Study overturns basic tenet in leukemia biology
Scientists thought they understood the steps leading to acute myeloid leukemia. But one of the basic tenets in that understanding turns out to be unsound, according to researchers at the OHSU Knight...
How a formidable leukemia subverts blood stem cells
New findings open a path for developing desperately needed therapies for the most frequently diagnosed leukemia in adults. Leukemia paves the way for its deadly advance by manipulating the...