LCH, genmutation och Cancer
Högaktuellt och mycket intressant om LCH! Jag har redan skrivit tidigare att forskarna funnit att det lär finnas en koppling mellan LCH och en ärftlig benägenhet för att få autoimmuna sjukdomar och att detta stämmer i Elmers fall. Nu kommer fler nyheter som styrker att LCH kan vara ärftligt. Den här nya forskningen stöder dessutom teorin om att LCH är en Cancer. Forskarna har varit väldigt oeniga på den här punkten - om det är en cancer eller en immunsjukdom.
Än idag påstår "alla" att LCH absolut INTE är ärftligt...
Än idag påstår "alla" att LCH absolut INTE är ärftligt...
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
For Chief Scientific Officer Barrett Rollins, MD, PhD, and colleagues, OncoMap has shown the way to a potential treatment advance for Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a rare disease in which too many Langerhans cells (a type of white blood cell) grow in certain tissues and organs, often the skin and bones. The rarity of the disease and scarcity of banked tissue has made it difficult to study, but Rollins and his associates found 60 samples, most stored in the tissue archives at partnering Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital. When they analyzed the specimens with OncoMap, they found nearly 60 percent had the same genetic mutation – an abnormality for which a drug is already available. The research also helped settle a longstanding question about Langerhans: Is it truly a form of cancer? The discovery of a cancer-causing gene in so many samples indicates that it is.
For Chief Scientific Officer Barrett Rollins, MD, PhD, and colleagues, OncoMap has shown the way to a potential treatment advance for Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a rare disease in which too many Langerhans cells (a type of white blood cell) grow in certain tissues and organs, often the skin and bones. The rarity of the disease and scarcity of banked tissue has made it difficult to study, but Rollins and his associates found 60 samples, most stored in the tissue archives at partnering Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital. When they analyzed the specimens with OncoMap, they found nearly 60 percent had the same genetic mutation – an abnormality for which a drug is already available. The research also helped settle a longstanding question about Langerhans: Is it truly a form of cancer? The discovery of a cancer-causing gene in so many samples indicates that it is.
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Postat av: Sara
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