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Researchers discover key mutation in acute myeloid leukemia – 4
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. Acute myeloid leukemia patients with a specific gene mutation survived the aggressive blood cancer only about a year, while those without it survived more than three. Dr. Tim Ley at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis says, identifying this mutation could help determine whether or not to intensify treatment early.
Ley: What that generally means is that if the patient has a donor for an allogenic bone marrow transplant available, in first remission, what we do in poor risk patients is we transplant them immediately because we know that without a transplant they’re not likely to do very well.
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