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Researchers discover that a type of childhood leukaemia originates during foetal development - EurekAlert


A team of researchers from the Institute of Oncology of the University of Oviedo (IUOPA), the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, the University of Barcelona and the Centre for Biomedical Research in Cancer Network (CIBERONC) have demonstrated that some childhood leukaemia originate during embryonic development, although they do not manifest after a few months after birth.

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