leukaemia

Cancer needs energy to drive its out-of-control growth. It gets energy in the form of glucose, in fact consuming so much glucose that one method for imaging cancer simply looks for areas of extreme glucose consumption -- where there is consumption, there is cancer. But how does cancer get this...

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued a final appraisal determination (FAD) recommending that AbbVie’s venclyxto (venetoclax) is made available to NHS patients with difficult-to-treat types of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) via the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF)...

The world may be in a dark place right now, but science is providing plenty of light to fight off the shadows. Take the case of two babies that have just been rescued from previously incurable forms of leukemia – thanks to gene-editing therapy, their lives will no longer be cut short. Writing...

A therapy that retrains the body's immune system to fight cancer has provoked excitement after more than 90% of terminally ill patients reportedly went into remission. White blood cells were taken from patients with leukaemia, modified in the lab and then put back. But the data has not been...