{"id":89,"date":"2021-03-15T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/?p=89"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:43:51","slug":"leukemia-research-seeks-to-increase-knowledge-around-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/2\/leukemia-research-seeks-to-increase-knowledge-around-the-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Leukemia research seeks to increase knowledge around the disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Leukemias represent the most common type of cancer in children and adolescents, responsible for about 33% of all malignancies in children under 14 years of age worldwide. The most common type of leukemia in children and adolescents is acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL). Early diagnosis and treatment of ALL is critical to achieve a cure for the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the Pel\u00e9 Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Research Institute, a group of scientists is developing the project \u201cSearching for markers of therapeutic response in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL): monitoring the variations of gene expression and enteric microbiome in pediatric patients with ALL throughout chemotherapy treatment\u201d. The study will be dedicated to evaluating the different responses that patients show during ALL treatment, from a molecular as well as intestinal microbiota (set of microorganisms that inhabit the intestine) perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach patient responds to treatment in a different way. We will collect data on what happens in the cells and intestines of these children and then cross-reference this data to try to identify early markers that indicate whether the child will respond well to therapy,\u201d explain research coordinator Roberto Rosati and co-coordinator L\u00edbera Maria Dalla Costa. With this they intend to contribute to the treatments being even more assertive, increasing the chances of cure for patients with this type of leukemia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discoveries about this interaction may also allow the development of new therapies that can restore the intestinal microbiota, protect patients against infections and enhance both the immune response and the therapeutic capacity of patients with leukemia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study will involve 60 patients seen at the Oncology services from Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe, Erasto Gaertner, Nossa Senhora das Gra\u00e7as and Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas hospitals, all in Curitiba (Paran\u00e1). The participation in the research may also represent an additional care in the treatment of these children, since they will have access to a series of molecular tests that are not performed during a conventional treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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National Program of Support for Oncologic Attention \u2013 PRONON<\/strong>
With a budget of approximately US$ 800,000, this project has been approved by the National Program of Support for Oncologic Attention (PRONON) and has received resources from the Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe supporting companies, enabled by the tax waive program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe has been caring for children with cancer since 1962, having formalized its Oncology Service in 1968. During these more than 50 years of work, it has improved its performance by investing in the physical structure, to provide more comfort to the patients and their families; in the diagnostic structure, allowing for the early identification of the disease in order to save more lives; and in professional training and increasingly assertive treatments, with new drugs, new techniques and new procedures, such as the bone marrow transplant. PRONON has become an important source of resources that has helped make possible the constant advances in the service provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists intend to find markers to help indicate tailored treatments to the disease, increasing the chances of cure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}