Post by Daniel on Aug 31, 2018 18:19:11 GMT -5
Israeli Team’s Leukemia Breakthrough Puts Cure within Reach
By: United with Israel Staff
Aug 30, 2018
Dr. Yinon Ben-Neriah and his team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are giving cancer patients throughout the world a glimmer of hope with a major breakthrough in the search for a cure for acute myeloid leukemia.
Specifically, the Israeli researchers developed a cutting-edge biological drug that demonstrated a cure rate of 50% for lab mice with acute myeloid leukemia, an extremely aggressive forms of cancer with a five-year survival rate of only about 25% overall.
Specifically, the Israeli researchers developed a cutting-edge biological drug that demonstrated a cure rate of 50% for lab mice with acute myeloid leukemia, an extremely aggressive forms of cancer with a five-year survival rate of only about 25% overall.
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One of the greatest challenges facing the development of biological cancer drugs to treat leukemia is their ability to target only individual leukemic cell proteins. Leukemic cells, however, adapt and respond by blocking the drugs, resulting in drug-resistant cancer cells that rapidly regrow, advancing the disease’s attack on the patient’s body.
Ben-Neriah’s new drug is revolutionizing treatment by operating like a cluster bomb, attacking multiple leukemic proteins at once, so that the disease can’t overcome the drug’s effects. The new therapy also does the job of a multi-drug approach, which eliminates the debilitating host of side effects brought on by simultaneously administering multiple therapies to fight cancer.
“We were thrilled to see such a dramatic change even after only a single dose of the new drug. Nearly all of the lab mice’s leukemia signs disappeared overnight,” commented Ben-Neriah.
Ben-Neriah’s new drug is revolutionizing treatment by operating like a cluster bomb, attacking multiple leukemic proteins at once, so that the disease can’t overcome the drug’s effects. The new therapy also does the job of a multi-drug approach, which eliminates the debilitating host of side effects brought on by simultaneously administering multiple therapies to fight cancer.
“We were thrilled to see such a dramatic change even after only a single dose of the new drug. Nearly all of the lab mice’s leukemia signs disappeared overnight,” commented Ben-Neriah.
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