Drug Eradicates Human Leukemia in Mice, Study Finds
From Times staff and wire reports
Scientists have found a drug that wiped out human leukemia cells in mice and could become weapon against the most common cancer in children.
The drug blocks a chemical signal that the acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells need to survive. The idea behind the drug may also apply to finding new treatments for other types of cancer, researcher Dr. Chaim Roifman said.
An estimated 3,500 new cases of the leukemia occurred in the United States last year, 2,000 of them in children, according to the Leukemia Society of America.
