New Hope For Children With Leukemia
Clinicians at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have successfully demonstrated an improved technique for blood stem cell transplantations in children that shows promise for those most likely to fail standard therapy for leukemia. The St. Jude technique allows blood stem cells to come from parents or unmatched adult siblings; and it avoids the aggressive, toxic therapys that commonly must accompany the transplant. This allows the majority of patients with leukemia or non-malignant blood disorders to receive a transplant, as per Gregory Hale, M.D., St. Jude Bone Marrow Transplantation Division interim chief. A report on this work appears in the prepublication edition of the British Journal of Haematology........
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