SCIENTISTS say they are onto a “promising” new treatment for leukaemia blood cancer which has not seen major progress for over 30 years.
Experts call it a “largely incurable disease” and only around a third of patients survive for a year or more after their diagnosis.Mum, 33, dies after refusing cancer treatment so she could give birth to baby“We’ve shown for the first time that targeting the ways that our cells use to respond to oxygen levels could provide a new way to treat leukaemia, without impacting the normal production of blood cells within the bone marrow.
Prof Kristian Helin, chief of the Institute of Cancer Research, said: “This work provides important insights into the way cancer uses signals within the body – such as those relating to oxygen levels – to grow and develop.ACUTE myeloid leukaemia is a type of blood cancer that affects the immune system's white blood cells.
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