Items Tagged ‘#acute myeloid leukemia’

March 21, 2022

Mayo Clinic discovery in bone marrow cancer points to potential drug targets 

By Susan Murphy Susan Murphy (@susanmurphy)

New research from Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine finds that patients with ASXL1-mutant chronic myelomonocytic leukemia — an uncommon type of cancer of the bone marrow — have distinctive epigenetic changes that can activate harmful genes and cause the cancer to grow faster. The ASXL1 genetic mutation also can transform the disease into the more aggressive acute myeloid leukemia. […]

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Tags: #acute myeloid leukemia, #chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, center for individualized medicine, genomic medicine, genomics, medical research


August 15, 2019

Shaping the landscape of cancer care with precision therapies

By Sharon Rosen Sharon Rosen (@sharonhrosen)

Article by Sara Damore Jeffrey Tyner, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology at Oregon Health & Science University, will join several precision cancer care leaders from across the country at the annual Individualizing Medicine Conference. Dr. Tyner will present “Precision Therapy through Functional Genomics in Hematologic Malignancies.” Dr. Tyner’s research […]

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Tags: #acute myeloid leukemia, #CIMCon19, #Dr. Jeffrey Tyner, #Functional Genomics, #targeted therapies, blood cancers, center for individualized medicine, genomics, hematolgic malignancies, Individualizing Medicine Conference 2019, mayo clinic, Oregon Health and Science University


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