Abstract:Current chemotherapy of pediatric T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) efficiently reduces the tumor mass with, however, undesirable long term consequences and remains ineffective in adolescent and adult T-ALL. Furthermore, relapse can be caused by pre-leukemic stem cells (pre-LSCs) that were spared by current protocols and evolved to malignancy. A distinctive characteristic of pre-LSCs is their critical dependence on interactions with the microenvironment for survival, which guided our strategy to targ… Show more
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