The Center for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Yekaterinburg city developed a new method of treating leukemia in infants.
The disease from which children die before the year, managed to win.
If detected early in infants lymphoblastic leukemia, doctors warned the parents: you need to prepare for the worst. Cope with the disease could not. One only chemotherapy or even radical surgery - the transplantation of stem cells - only worsened the situation.
We decided to use in the treatment of seemingly well-known product - provitamin A or trans-Retinoic acid. It is mainly prescribed to adults, and not only in leukemia. Doctors conducted a study: ATRA, an international symbol acids, may fight cancer and a very young patients.
At the initial stage of a chemotherapy, and after the tumor destroyed the bulk of chemotherapy and remained the most resistant cells to treatment, effects on these cells are full of trans Retinoic acid.
After this course the children are noticeably faster on the mend. A method of treatment Uralic medics named the MLL-Baby - symbol of the gene mutations in exposed infants.
Methods developed in the Urals, have been successfully treated leukemia in infants and in other Russian regions - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod and Arkhangelsk. Little lives with the help of this protocol began to save in Belarus. And even in Germany, which has its own methods of treatment.
German colleagues at first did not even imagine how effective can be treated using provitamin A. Now, they say: the Russians coined the method can be described as phenomenal.
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