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  • adjective medicine That us used to treat leukemia

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From anti- +‎ leukemia

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  • If two drugs were better than one, and if three better than two, then what if four antileukemia drugs could be given together—in combination, as with TB?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • If two drugs were better than one, and if three better than two, then what if four antileukemia drugs could be given together—in combination, as with TB?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Farber needed a means to stimulate and fund the effort to find even more powerful antileukemia drugs.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • His Boston group had now added another drug, a steroid, to their antileukemia regimen, and by assiduously combining steroids and antifolates, the remissions had been stretched out by several months.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Farber needed a means to stimulate and fund the effort to find even more powerful antileukemia drugs.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • As Freireich, Frei, and Zubrod studied the growing list of antileukemia drugs, the notion of combining drugs emerged with growing clarity: toxicities notwithstanding, annihilating leukemia might involve using a combination of two or more drugs.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • If two drugs were better than one, and if three better than two, then what if four antileukemia drugs could be given together—in combination, as with TB?

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • Moshe Talpaz said the updated findings confirm in a larger number of patients that the investigational drug continues to be well-tolerated and produce "beneficial and durable" antileukemia activity in patients who have failed with other therapies.

    Ariad Treatment for Drug-Resistant Leukemia Shows Success 2010

  • His Boston group had now added another drug, a steroid, to their antileukemia regimen, and by assiduously combining steroids and antifolates, the remissions had been stretched out by several months.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • As Freireich, Frei, and Zubrod studied the growing list of antileukemia drugs, the notion of combining drugs emerged with growing clarity: toxicities notwithstanding, annihilating leukemia might involve using a combination of two or more drugs.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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