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Chemotherapy drugs, the first line of defense for a common form of adult leukemia, could actually be contributing to the disease’s rate of relapse in patients.
The findings are part of a study out of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, published Wednesday in the advance online edition of Nature.
The researchers took samples from eight patients diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Patients with AML who don’t receive chemotherapy usually die within a few months.
But out of the patients who do receive chemotherapy treatment and go into remission, about 80 percent relapse and die within the next five years.
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