Infant with deadly leukemia saved by drug for adult liver cancer

ScienceDaily
Sep 11, 2019, 9:24 pm172 pts
Doctors have successfully treated an infant with a rare childhood leukemia using a targeted therapy approved for adults with inoperable liver cancer and advanced kidney cancer. The decision to use the drug, sorafenib, was made after pathologists identified a unique mutation of two genes being fused together…

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