Can Leukemia Be Cured For A 2 Year Old WIth 8 Months?
Fighting For Hope!, At this time there is no known cure for leukaemia. However, risk factors for childhood leukemia include having a brother or sister with leukemia, having certain genetic disorders and having had radiation or chemotherapy. Treatment often cures childhood leukemia. Treatment options include chemotherapy, other drug therapy and radiation. In some cases bone marrow and blood stem cell transplantation might help. But there is hope, because it was announced in the Belfast Telegraph on 3rd November 2009, that scientists have discovered a new drug which they claim is able to kill leukaemia. Researchers maintain the drug, called PBOX-15, can even destroy the cancerous cells in adult patients with a poor prognosis and who have shown resistance to other treatments. The groundbreaking study was carried out by academics at Trinity College Dublin together with colleagues in Belfast City Hospital, Sienna in Italy and St James’s Hospital, Dublin. It has been published in the interna
