'Bubble boy' develops leukaemia
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A boy with no immune system being treated with pioneering  gene therapy has developed leukaemia, his doctors say.
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Luke Do was a lively 18-month-old awaiting the birth of his first sibling when he was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. The hopes of his parents, both doctors in San Jose, Calif., immediately turned to a bone marrow transplant, but they soon learned some distressing news &#151; Luke's ethnic heritage made him a tough match.
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A growing body of evidence linking increased night light to certain types of cancer has led researchers to suspect it could be connected to the steady increase in cases of childhood leukemia.
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Arsenic may be a suitable first-line treatment for a rare form of leukaemia called acute promyeloctytic leukaemia (APL), an Iranian study claims.
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An eight-year-old boy from Sussex who needed a rare bone marrow transplant dies from leukaemia.
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By Alan Sims  I READ your article (Mum In A Million Praised After Saving Ill Daughter, 25.5.07) about local girl Sophie Perren who has serious immune system damage called neutropenia.   I think there should be more investigation into the causes of such disorders.
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British doctors believe they have cured a boy of a rare blood disorder after transplanting cells from his baby brother.
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The chances of children being  diagnosed with leukemia seem to be related to the number of  infections they had in their first year of life, research from  the UK suggests.
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Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said that his four-month-old son James Fraser has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that causes mucus to clog up within some organs of the body.
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CENTRAL PHOENIX - An 8-month-old boy was recovering from surgery at a Phoenix hospital to remove a benign brain tumor that gave the child laughterlike seizures which prompted his unknowing parents to nickname him &quot;Captain Giggles.
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Children being treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) seem more able to deal with their treatment if their levels of antioxidants don't drop too much, new study findings suggest.
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Blood from a newborn baby's umbilical cord can be used to treat adults with leukaemia, a US-based study says.
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Children in a northern Nevada leukemia cluster are more likely to have a variation in a gene that helps combat unsafe chemicals, and more research is needed to learn why, federal researchers said Thursday.
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Researchers have made a breakthrough discovery by identifying a gene that is responsible for childhood leukemia and the effects of the mutated gene, called NOTCH1, they say, can be inhibited by a type of drug designed to treat Alzheimerâs disease.
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Teenagers who&#39;ve survived  childhood cancers may be more likely than their siblings to be  depressed or anxious, have attention problems or show  antisocial behaviors, researchers report.
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Federal researchers have found children involved in a northern Nevada leukemia cluster are more prone to have a variation in a gene that helps combat unsafe chemicals, and more research is needed to learn the reasons why.
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Living near a fuel station may quadruple the risk of acute leukemia in children, research published on Thursday showed.