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"Logan is a brave boy," Dr. Marcos Mestre says of the 8-year-old boy with acute myeloid leukemia who beat the disease for the second time after a two-year battle.
"Thanks to his bravery, his clinical care team at Nicklaus Children's Hospital, including his attending physician, we are advancing pediatric cancer treatment for all kids in Florida and across the region."
Logan was diagnosed with relapsed acute myeloid leukemia two years ago, but doctors told his family he was cancer-free at the time, per a press release from the Miami hospital and Florida International University.
Then came the devastating news: The leukemia had returned, and doctors couldn't figure out how to treat it.
So they turned to a new "functional precision medicine" approach that combines genetic testing with a new way to test individual drugs on tumor samples, according to the press release.
"This new approach resulted in 83% of the children showing improvement," says Dr. Maggie Fader of the Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute at Nicklaus Children's Hospital.
"We are advancing pediatric cancer treatment for all kids in Florida and across the region."
The study, published in Nature Medicine, showed that 83% of patients treated with the new approach showed improvement, including Logan.
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Reviving Ancient Indian Art Forms – Empowering Artisans Towards Entrepreneurship
Rivaayat is an initiative by Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi to revive various dying art form and solve innumerable problems faced by the artisans. Rivaayat began with reviving a 20,000-year-old art form of pottery that is a means of survival for 600 families residing in Uttam Nagar, Delhi.
