Breastfeeding, or chestfeeding, may help reduce the risk of childhood leukemia. This may be due to the protective effects of certain substances, such as lactoferrin, in breast milk. Human milk might ...

Leukemia, a type of cancer of the body’s blood forming tissues, usually involves one’s white blood cells, or the cells that help fight off infection. In patients with leukemia, the body produces an ...

A professor of medical oncology at Johns Hopkins University discussed his research on the evolution of blood-related cancers and how pathways to their growth can be inhibited at the weekly Bhussry ...

Those colds and coughs running through children at daycare might help give those kids some protection against childhood leukemia, according an analysis of studies relating to the disease. Young ...

For every possible cause of childhood leukemia pain, your child’s team of doctors and healthcare providers has a way to manage it. This year, about 15,000 parents will learn that their child or teen ...

Scientists are exploring if early intervention can prevent AML in high-risk patients, shifting the focus from monitoring to proactive prevention. AML is a malignant blood disorder characterized by the ...

The article, published in the journal Redox Biology by the group of Dr. Manel Esteller, shows that epigenetic changes prevent iron-associated programmed cell death in leukemia and show a new target ...

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 ...

Short-term treatment with the drug ruxolitinib prevents B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) in mice that have a genetic predisposition to the disease. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and ...