Clinical Trial Results: Patients with Leukemia Show High Remission Rates after Immunotherapy
October 16, 2014
Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have published results of this study in Lancet.
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Team Led by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Researcher Generates Comprehensive, Developmental Map of Human T-cells
June 17, 2020
LOS ANGELES (Jun. 16, 2020) — Chintan Parekh, MD, of The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has led a team of investigators that generated a comprehensive roadmap for how T
Could CAR-T Version 2.0 Be on the Horizon?
March 31, 2020
CHLA scientists work toward a new therapy to target resistant leukemia. Their study, recently published in the journal Leukemia, shows that these new CAR-T cells could be the answer to resistant
Diet + Exercise + Chemo = Increased Survival in Youth with Leukemia
April 1, 2021
Risk of detecting cancer cells decreased by 70% after one month of treatment
St. Baldrick’s Foundation Supports Innovative Research in Pediatric Cancer at CHLA
August 5, 2016
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Bone Loss Associated With Leukemia Therapy Occurs Sooner Than Previously Thought
February 12, 2016
Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia are at increased risk for bone fractures due to bone loss resulting from treatment. This decrease in bone density (as illustrated here) can occur as soon as
Diet + Exercise + Chemo = Increased Survival in Youth with Leukemia
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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles study finds risk of detectable cancer cells decreased by 70% after one month of treatment in patients with ALL.
Side Effects of Leukemia Treatment More Prevalent in Girls
December 20, 2015
Sex-based differences in incidence and long-term outcomes have been well documented in pediatric cancer patients. Investigators at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have now discovered similar
Cancer Can Run But it Can’t Hide
December 20, 2018
Actually, it can hide. CHLA’s Yong-Mi Kim tells us exactly how leukemia burrows within bone marrow, where it is shielded from cancer treatments. But given Kim’s breakthrough research on acute