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31. Day Care, Play Groups Cut Leukemia Risk?
    
    April 29, 2008 -- Children who attend day care or play groups may be less likely to develop leukemia. So says Patricia Buffler, PhD, of the University of California at Berkeley. She and her colleagues reviewed 14 studies on leukemia and kids' social contacts with other children, including at day car
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32. Sen. Specter Hodgkin's Disease Returns
    
    April 16, 2008 -- Sen. Arlen Specter's Hodgkin's disease, first diagnosed in 2005, has returned, the senator has announced. Hodgkin's is a type of lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system). Specter (R-Pa.), who is 78 years old, says he will not disrupt Senate activities because of the relapse, which
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33. New Leukemia Vaccine May Prolong Life
    
    Dec. 10, 2007 -- An experimental new leukemia treatment that boosts the body's own immune system to fight disease may prolong life. Early clinical trials show some people who responded to the vaccine experienced event-free survival that was three times longer than those who didn't respond to the leu
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34. Mini-BMT: Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Cure?
    
    Dec. 10, 2007 -- A procedure called a mini-BMT cured non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 83% of patients in a small study, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers report. Experts prefer to call the treatment "non-ablative bone marrow transplant." Before a normal BMT, patients get high-dose
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35. Drug Combo Effective Against Leukemia
    
    July 19, 2007 -- Patients with the most common type of leukemia achieved better responses to treatment with two cancer-fighting drugs than one in a large international study. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients also had much better survival rates without disease progression when treated with
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36. Mismatched Cord Blood Can Save Kids
    
    June 7, 2007 -- Kids with leukemia may need a bone marrow transplant from a matched donor. But they do just as well with mismatched cord blood, doctors find. About 30% of patients needing a transplant are lucky -- they have a brother or sister whose bone marrow is a perfect match for their own. But
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37. New Lymphoma Treatment Promising
    
    June 4, 2007 (Chicago) -- Nearly nine in 10 people with lymphoma given a relatively new type of treatment that combines cancer-killing antibodies and radiation are still alive eight years after being treated, researchers report. The study also showed that half of people with previously untreated fol
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38. Kids’ Leukemia Tied to Later Cancer
    
    March 20, 2007 -- Survivors of the most common type of childhood leukemia may need careful cancer screening for decades after leukemia treatment. That finding comes from a study of 2,169 children who achieved complete remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is one of the most curable chil
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39. Immunity Boosters Linked to Leukemia
    
    Feb. 6, 2007 -- There may be a small leukemia risk from drugs used to boost immunity during cancer chemotherapy, a new study suggests. Cancer chemotherapy often decreases the number of the body's infection-fighting white blood cells. Drugs known as growth factors boost the growth of new white blood
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40. Effects of Childhood Cancer Can Linger Long After Disease Is Gone
    
    Jan. 17, 2001 -- Twenty-five-year-old Matthew McKee might have dreamed at one time of playing for a professional sports team. But 10 years ago, when he was an athletic teenager playing four high school sports, that dream was cut short when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. "I grew up very ath
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