Hope for leukaemia patients through discovery at Karolinska University Hospital
In a recently published study, Nikolas Herold and Martin Jädersten from Karolinska University Hospital show how acute myeloid leukaemia can be treated more effectively. They have reused an already proven medicinal product.Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is an aggressive blood cancer with a high mortality that affects about 350 people annually in Sweden. Over 70 percent of patients die within five years of falling ill. One reason for the high mortality rate is that chemotherapy often has an inadequate effect, which causes the disease to reoccur after some time. The protein (SAMHD1) in the