"THE “game-changing” discovery of a new way to kill leukaemia cells is the first major breakthrough at the $200 million South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.
The results will bring new hope to patients and their families by dramatically reducing the need for intensive, ongoing drug treatment and subsequent side-effects.
The study, led by SAHMRI and the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Personalised Cancer Medicine, made the discovery, which researchers say presents a new treatment strategy with a significant reduction in side-effects for patients.
SAHMRI’s director of cancer research, Professor Deborah White, said the breakthrough was “paradigm-shifting”.
“Our findings are not just applicable to chronic myeloid leukaemia therapy, but to all targeted cancer treatments,” she said."
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