Israeli Medical Research Offers New Hope For Treating Childhood Leukemia

A team of Israeli scientists at the Sheba Medical Center’s Research Center for Leukemia and Childhood Malignancies has discovered a method for developing a more effective and less perilous treatment for those suffering from childhood leukemia, the most common cancer in children. New treatments associated with the research have the potential to impact upwards of 20 percent of those suffering from Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). The team, led by Dr…

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