 The first challenges surfaced in July 2007, when Jordan was less than 2 days old. His mother Chancelly was recovering from a C-section delivery when Jordan, her only child, suffered a seizure. Within hours, both mother and child were in an ambulance speeding toward Memphis, Tennessee. Doctors at their hospital had told Chancelly simply that there was something bad in Jordan's blood and that St. Jude would take it out FULL STORY Smarter use of existing treatment helps dramatically boost survival of young AML patients More individualized therapy and better supportive care helped push the survival for children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to 71 percent three years after diagnosis, according to new research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators and reported in the medical journal The Lancet Oncology. FULL STORY
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