An assistant professor of medicine at UCLA has made discoveries that could result in medications to help cure a type of adult leukemia.
Dr. Charles Sawyers has discovered how to interrupt the protein pathway that carries signals from the cancerous genes that cause chronic myelogenous leukemia. Sawyers suggests that interrupting the pathway will cause remission of the disease. About 20% of adult leukemia appears in the form of CML, Sawyers said.
