Infantile ALL occurs in children under age one. It’s a rare and aggressive leukemia that typically has a poor outlook. Treatment involves chemo and sometimes a stem cell transplant. Leukemia refers to ...

Maxton Bowman, 2, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia after months of unexplained symptoms.

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The most common type of childhood cancer is acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), a blood and bone marrow cancer that creates immature white blood cells that ...

In most cases, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) manifests as a de novo malignancy in previously healthy people. Risk factors for developing ALL include age older than 70 years and genetic disorders, ...

Survival rates for childhood leukemia are improving thanks to new treatments. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia has the highest survival among all pediatric cancers, 80-85 percent. Seattle Children’s ...

In patients with Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia who experience relapse after consolidation with allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), ...

A combination of two drugs could improve outcomes and reduce the need for toxic chemotherapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), the commonest cancer in childhood and one that can be ...

Children and adults with relapsed or refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia now have a new reason to pay attention.

Hematologist-oncologists are doctors who specialize in treating blood cancers such as acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). ALL is a rare, rapidly progressing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. The ...