| We compared results in the warmed and unwarmed patients with leukaemia with paired two tailed t or McNemar tests. |
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| Some evidence indicates that in chronic myeloid leukaemia, bone marrow transplantation can prolong life if performed during its chronic phase. |
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| It was outlawed after tests revealed it has caused leukaemia in laboratory mice. |
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| If one of a pair of identical twins develops leukaemia, in one out of four cases the other will also do so, within weeks or months. |
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| It was thought she had beaten the disease last year, but tests in January revealed that she had developed another form of the leukaemia. |
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| It is also common in people with widespread cancer, leukaemia, diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver or major burns. |
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| Missing are the chapters on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and acute myeloid leukaemia. |
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| Regression of generalized leukaemia in rat is induced by the granulocytic chalone. |
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| A man who is being treated for leukaemia is planning to run two marathons as part of a year-long push to raise cash for a cancer charity. |
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| An example is an early experiment in Hawaii which found a cluster of childhood leukaemia near some radio transmission towers. |
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| The disorders are characterised by overactive production of blood cells and can lead to thrombosis, haemorrhage or acute myeloid leukaemia. |
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| It uses genetic fingerprinting to identify tiny leukaemia cells from a sample of bone marrow. |
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| Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is overproduction of immature lymphocytes, called lymphoblasts. |
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| This test looks at all the different cells in the your blood, to look for conditions like infections, anaemia, and leukaemia. |
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| A year ago today, she was undergoing a transatlantic bone marrow transplant in a last-ditch attempt to beat leukaemia. |
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| This includes patients who are having transplants, or who have conditions like leukaemia or Hodgkin's disease. |
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| However, it may be a sign of platelet or vascular disorders and is common in leukaemia and HIV infection. |
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| There are two basic reasons for carrying out bone marrow transplantation for leukaemia and lymphoma. |
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| To the amazement of all concerned Simon's leukaemia had grown through some of the heaviest drug treatment available. |
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| His achievement is more remarkable as he is in remission from chronic myeloid leukaemia. |
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| The life cycle of leukaemia cells is well understood, making it relatively easy to spot changes in behaviour. |
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| A widower, whose wife died from leukaemia last year, is appealing to people to join the bone marrow register on her birthday. |
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| Diseases such as anaemia due to iron deficiency, pernicious anaemia, and leukaemia are diagnosed in this way. |
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| After the three children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia were all named Child of the Year, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. |
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| The symptoms of leukaemia vary greatly, depending on the exact type of disease and how advanced it is. |
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| The two most important cancers in this context are colorectal cancer and leukaemia. |
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| Given alongside chemotherapy, it can reduce the symptoms of leukaemia very quickly. |
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| This is a very important charity which treats children with serious illnesses such as cancer, leukaemia, spina bifida and cystic fibrosis. |
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| We investigated these issues in a case-control study of acute leukaemia in England. |
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| When a person with symptoms of leukaemia goes to their GP, they will usually be physically examined. |
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| The cold developed into pneumonia, which turned out to be a symptom of leukaemia. |
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| It was hoped the drug would help arthritis, leukaemia and multiple sclerosis. |
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| Children living close to electricity pylons face a greater risk of contracting leukaemia, it was officially acknowledged yesterday. |
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| The charity was set up to buy Christmas gifts for children with cancer, leukaemia and other illnesses. |
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| In some types of cancer, particularly leukaemia, high-dose chemotherapy is used. |
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| In leukaemia, white blood cells multiply in an uncontrolled and abnormal way. |
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| It would also help children with blood diseases such as leukaemia, and would hopefully increase the survival percentage rate. |
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| Scientists hope that these unlucky fish will help them develop drug treatments and gene therapy for leukaemia. |
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| Some forms of leukaemia or genetic blood diseases that are fatal when untreated can be cured by transplantation of normal bone marrow cells. |
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| Kate spent time with 15-year-old Zakwan Anuar, who is terminally ill with acute leukaemia. |
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| He was also jointly responsible for oncological and leukaemia services and worked with the Medical Research Council leukaemia trials and British lymphoma trials. |
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| They also saw no link between leukaemia and living near businesses such as those dealing with aluminium, plastic, wood, metalwork, printing works and ceramics. |
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| Blood tests showing a former Trowbridge footballer had a rare form of leukaemia went unchecked for a week by analysts and doctors at a London hospital. |
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| And it felt as if leukaemia was nudging me towards the edge of the abyss. |
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| At that time, she faced a race against time to find a bone marrow donor who matched her rare blood type, after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia. |
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| The vital marrow was packed in ice for the flight from the USA and given to Mr Worral to help him fight the myeloid leukaemia he was diagnosed with in September. |
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| Underlying conditions were more common among patients than in the control group, particularly AIDS related illness, metastatic cancers, and lymphomas or leukaemia. |
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| A young leukaemia sufferer has endured a further blow after thieves stole riding tack belonging to a family friend who had just bought a horse for her to enjoy riding. |
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| Further tests, including a bone marrow sample for leukaemia, failed to confirm a diagnosis but the illness was linked to a rare from of pure red blood cell aplasia. |
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| Treatment aims to destroy all the white blood cells affected by leukaemia. |
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| For patients with leukaemia, the neutrophile leukocyte test brought about the first alarm that the malignancy might be back. |
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| When, in 1975, his second eldest child, Susan, was diagnosed with terminal monoblastic leukaemia, a row broke out between her parents. |
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| This shows an almost threefold increase in a certain childhood leukaemia. |
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| Doctors diagnosed the twins Levente and Csaba as having lymphoblast leukaemia, which is an aggressive blood cancer. |
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| Other diagnoses included diarrhoeal disease, dengue fever, typhoid, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, brucellosis, acute myeloid leukaemia, and infectious mononucleosis. |
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| Philippines: improving access to treatment and care for children with retinoblastoma and leukaemia. |
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| You must not take Amoxicillin Axapharm if you are suffering from glandular fever or lymphatic leukaemia. |
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| Spall, after all, had to skip the 1996 festival after a diagnosis of leukaemia left him all but in his grave. |
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| The money is spent locally, caring for children and young people suffering from cancer, Hodgkin's disease, leukaemia, epilepsy, blood disorders or acquired brain injury. |
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| Well-known examples amongst many are asbestos, which is known to cause lung cancer and mesothelioma or benzene which leads to leukaemia. |
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| Before Gleevec, less than a third of those diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia were still alive five years later. |
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| These include AC220, a kinase blocker for treating an acute form of leukaemia. |
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| For example, the use of bone marrow transplants to treat leukaemia or cancer is a form of cell therapy. |
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| Many symptoms of acute leukaemia are vague and non-specific. |
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| Life was just about manageable until the youngest boy was diagnosed with leukaemia. |
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| In 2009 the former college athlete was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukaemia, a cancer more common among the elderly. |
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| All we know is that the incidence of leukaemia among our soldiers is abnormally high. |
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| At last, an explanation of how a mutation in this receptor could lead to leukaemia in patients. |
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| The Group is pursuing ex vivo research using this molecule in leukaemia resistant to other treatments. |
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| The study in France found a link between cases of acute leukaemia among youngsters and how close they lived to a petrol station or a garage carrying out car repairs. |
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| I had acute myeloid leukaemia and it was very close indeed, they caught it just in time. |
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| Animal studies to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for the childhood leukaemia indicated by the epidemiological evidence. |
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| This discovery represents a huge step forward in the possible therapeutic effect of retinoic acid in this type of leukaemia. |
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| His doctor did a blood test and discovered Mark had chronic myeloid leukaemia. |
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| Other rare clinical presentations of leukaemia cutis include bullae, ulcerations, and erythroderma resulting from diffuse leukaemic infiltration of the skin. |
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| In around a quarter of patients presenting the most common form of leukaemia, namely acute myeloid leukaemia, this kinase is impaired and constitutively active, enhancing proliferation of haematopoietic cells. |
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| Several targeted therapies, aimed at specific cancer-causing mutations, including Gleevec for chronic myelogenous leukaemia and Herceptin for some types of breast cancer, have been spectacularly successful. |
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| In 2005, Peters discovered that he was suffering from chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. |
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| He had already beaten leukaemia when he was diagnosed with germ-cell seminoma, a form of testicular cancer. |
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| They fear that the powerful electromagnetic radiation may lead to an increased risk of leukaemia, brain tumours, or even just headaches, sleeplessness and dizziness. |
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| Translocation of c-ab 1 oncogene correlates with the presence of a Philadelphia chromosome in chronic myelocytic leukaemia. |
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| In the early 1960s, multiple cases of childhood leukaemia and adult cancers began to appear, a shocking novelty because Mormons, who shun alcohol and tobacco, typically have low cancer rates. |
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| Gleevec, a treatment for chronic myelogenous leukaemia, and Herceptin, a treatment for some types of breast cancer, are both specific to particular mutations. |
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| Honoured were 4 inventions: a drug to combat chronic myelogenous leukaemia, a malaria drug based on a herbal agent, enabling the commercial use of solar energy and a highly efficient heat exchanger. |
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| It also finds some evidence of carcinogenic activity in rats based on an increased incidence of malignant mesothelioma in males and an increased incidence and positive trend of mononuclear cell leukaemia in females. |
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| Sadly, it seems the hypothesis is correct: in the USA, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin show human leukaemia incidence much higher than the national average. |
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| How about we talk about his leukaemia instead? |
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| It's now seven years since Hütter and his team at the Charité hospital in Berlin performed a groundbreaking stem cell transplant on a 40 year old HIV-positive patient, suffering from leukaemia. |
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| Mostly breast and thyroid, also some leukaemia, colon, lung. |
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| A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1984 compared those in the fallout area with other Mormons and found leukaemia levels five times higher. |
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| Although controversy regarding potential excess childhood leukaemia appears to be largely settled, the issue of possible health risk has not been ruled out absolutely. |
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| Modelling and GIS applications for estimating the 0.4 µT risk contours and the additional risk of childhood leukaemia by underground and overhead power lines. |
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| Pollution of drinking water sources is responsible for leukaemia in children and increased incidences of malaria, typhoid, cholera and other environmental diseases. |
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| The only sensible conclusion is that there is nothing in these results that points to there being an excess of leukaemia cases in the areas around the nuclear facilities. |
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| The couple's son, To then five, had be with acute lym leukaemia, the most leukaemia in ing for eight ters with the disease. |
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| The ESCs in experimental group were cultured without leukaemia inhibitory factor, for the formation of embryoid bodies. |
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| Australian broadcaster Clive James has admitted that he is losing his long-fought battle with leukaemia. |
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| He died in 1991 at age 86 of leukaemia and was buried in Corseaux cemetery. |
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| In the early 1990s, concern was raised in the UK about apparent clusters of leukaemia near nuclear facilities. |
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| Laboratory tests showed that sulphorophane, found in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, can kill acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells. |
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| Cammie Forbes, 17, who was first diagnosed with leukaemia 10 years ago, was given a life-saving bone marrow transplant by Alistair, eight. |
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| It had been found that uranium, which affected the blood cells, had a serious impact on health: the number of cases of leukaemia had increased considerably, as had the incidence of foetal deformities. |
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| Iclusig, developed by company Ariad, treats aggressive forms of chronic myeloid leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. |
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| After 6 to 12 months of transplantation, the expansion led to the development of a myeloproliferative disease, which can evolve to leukaemia. |
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| Natural killer cells are an essential part of the immune system, killing viruses and leukaemia cells, said Cornelia Ulrich, senior author. |
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| Shortly thereafter some cases of refractory cytopenia were noted to develop into leukaemia, giving rise to the term pre-leukaemia. |
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| He has conditions including Down's Syndrome, leukaemia and hypertonia, which means he has little muscle movement, yet he is always cheerful. |
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| They then introduced special antibodies with toxins and found that the immunotoxins penetrated the leukaemia cells and killed them faster. |
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| Roisin Donlon, aged 14, who has Down's Syndrome, is learning to live with non-reversible lung disease, obliterative bronchitis, after battling leukaemia. |
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| A BIRMINGHAM-based charity backing Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov's fight against leukaemia has launched a PS1 million appeal to support children battling the disease. |
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| Chronic exposure to bryostatin-1 increases the radiosensitivity of U937 leukaemia cells ectopically expressing Bcl-2 through a non-apoptotic mechanism. |
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| Tall, strawberry blond and freckle faced, Tracey was struggling with the everyday problems of adolescence and fighting a losing battle against leukaemia. |
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| In transmitted mouse leukaemia the cells remain fixed in type, but tissue culture methods applied to human acute leukaemias show that these cells are not fixed in type. |
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| Non virus associated leukaemia can sometimes be treated successfully but those leukaemias that are associated with viral infection are sadly untreatable. |
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| A phase 1 dose-finding and pharmacokinetic study of subcutaneous semisynthetic homoharringtonine in patients with advanced acute myeloid leukaemia. |
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| Epidemiological evidence for an infective basis in childhood leukaemia. |
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| There are different types of childhood leukaemia, which can be classified as acute or chronic. In children, about 98 per cent of leukaemias are acute. |
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| The drug is used in combination with chlorambucil chemotherapy for the treatment of previously untreated patients with lymphocytic leukaemia who have other medical conditions. |
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| Joe Logan had been keen to register to maybe one day save the life of someone with a blood cancer ever since he lost his aunt to leukaemia several years ago. |
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| The former Celtic star, who bravely battled leukaemia, now wears the Number 10 shirt for Wychall Wanderers over-35s in Solihull in the English midlands. |
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| The more common and curable cancers, namely acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, nephroblastoma and lymphoma in childhood, are addressed in this edition. |
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