leukemia

One rare form, acute myeloid leukemia, strikes those groups at a greater rate and younger age than the rest of the population. UM researchers are looking for volunteers to help understand and treat the disease.

A Tampa judge has ruled that a 4-year-old boy is in imminent danger of neglect if he stays with his parents because of their desire to treat his leukemia…

A judge has ruled that a 3-year-old Tampa boy must resume his cancer treatment, despite his parents' wishes. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Hillsborough…

Researchers are working on better ways to teach patients' immune systems to root out and kill malignant cells. A promising approach involves cells that attack cancer two ways at one time.

The process modifies patients' immune cells to attack their own cancer cells. It was approved to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children and young adults — the most common childhood cancer.

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommends the agency, for the first time, approve a new kind of treatment that uses genetically modified immune cells to attack cancer cells.

People with Parkinson's and related forms of dementia improved in a small study when they took a leukemia drug called nilotinib. Researchers say the drug seems to help brain cells eliminate toxins.