Math Could Help Cure Leukemia

When kids complain that math homework won’t help them in real life, a new answer might be that math could help cure cancer. In a recent study that combined math and medicine, researchers have shown that patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) may be cured of the disease with an optimally timed cancer vaccine, where the timing is determined based on their own immune response.

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Filed under: Lymphoma / Leukemia on June 30th, 2008