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Study published in New England Journal of Medicine employs Quest Diagnostics' blood-based leukemia testing MADISON, N.J., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Testing of blood specimens may detect abnormal white blood cells in patients years before the chronic form of lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) develops, according to research published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The finding may lead to a better understanding of cellular changes that characterize the earliest...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and Memgen jointly announced an agreement today to collaborate on a new Phase I clinical trial. The trial will use Memgen's ISF35, an active immunotherapy approach for treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Based on its alliance with LLS, Memgen plans to begin a Phase I clinical trial this year for up to 12 patients who have 17p-, refractory or resistant CLL with limited therapeutic options. Patients...

By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Green tea may help treat a form of adulthood leukemia, if the cases of four patients are any indication, according to a new report. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, found that of four patients who started drinking green tea or taking green tea extracts, three showed clear improvements in their condition in the following months. The patients all had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, a form of leukemia that usually arises...

By Amy NortonNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Green tea may help treat a form of adulthood leukemia, if the cases of four patients are any indication, according to a new report.Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, found that of four patients who started drinking green tea or taking green tea extracts, three showed clear improvements in their condition in the following months.The patients all had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, a form of leukemia that usually arises during or...