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    10/03/2011
    Hitting out of the Rough - Brennan Simkins

    St. Jude helps budding golfer Brennan Simkins through his battle with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia, which required four bone marrow transplants.

     
     
    12/14/2010
    Savoring success

    They’ve boosted AML survival to an all-time high, but St. Jude investigators hunger for even sweeter statistics.

     
     
    07/27/2010
    Defying the odds

    The first challenges surfaced in July 2007, when Jordan James 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.

     
     
    05/10/2010
    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.

     
     
    02/16/2010
    Study points to new role for donor natural killer cells

    Powerful but rare immune cells taken from a parent might provide a safe, effective and affordable approach to preventing cancer’s return in young patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to new St. Jude research.

     
     
    01/12/2006
    Better outcomes for pediatric AML

    Accurate prediction of treatment response and subsequent adjustment of therapy results in high remission rate and low treatment-related mortality.