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What do we know about acute lymphoblastic leukemia development and treatment?
Charles Mullighan
August 6, 2021
Know ALL was pleased to speak to Charles Mulligan, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, US. We asked, What do we know about acute lymphoblastic leukemia development and treatment?
Mulligan explains what acute lymphoblastic leukemia is and how the affected cells change and lead to symptoms. He describes how treatments are administered to patients and why. Mulligan outlines groups of patients that are at risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia development and the impact age has on this. Finally, he discusses how the treatment of ALL has changed over the years and highlights the success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy.
