Westside : CANCER RESEARCH
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.
It will take about five years for Sawyers to validate the findings of his research. By then, Sawyers said, he hopes to have developed a medication to treat CML. . . .
