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In some children with acute myeloid leukemia, cancer cells have as many DNA changes as healthy blood stem cells. Researchers were surprised to find these children have a poorer chance of survival compared with children whose leukemia has an above-average number of DNA changes. Their new study offers insight into how this form of blood

The collective effort to fight the coronavirus pandemic has been called the defining moment of the 21st century, or this generation’s Second World War. There may be some truth to these analogies, but it’s premature—and even presumptuous—to put the present into a historic context. Pandemics have always shaped human history. Starting in the year 541,

The first comprehensive study comparing the outcomes of robotic surgery to those of traditional open surgery in any organ has found that the surgeries are equally effective in treating bladder cancer. The seven-year study, conducted at 15 institutions, including Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, and directed by Dipen J. Parekh, M.D., chair of urology and director