{"id":338373,"date":"2025-10-28T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338373\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:46:11","slug":"lurie-childrens-hospital-launches-advanced-leukemia-research-and-clinical-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/338373\/","title":{"rendered":"Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital launches advanced leukemia research and clinical program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luriechildrens.org\/en\/news-stories\/cals-angels-donates-%244-million-to-establish-advanced-leukemia-clinical-and-research-program-at-lurie-childrens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a> this week launched a new advanced leukemia program.<\/p>\n<p>The program was spearheaded by a $4 million gift from the suburban pediatric cancer charity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calsangels.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cal&#8217;s Angels<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luriechildrens.org\/en\/specialties-conditions\/advanced-leukemia-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cal&#8217;s Angels Advanced Leukemia Clinical and Research Program<\/a> is the first of its kind in Chicago, and only one of six in the U.S. dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young adults battling leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>The new clinical and research program will bring together top experts and offer cutting-edge therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Stanley Manne Children&#8217;s Research Institute and the Northwestern University Feinberg school of Medicine will collaborate in the program&#8217;s research efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The leukemia program will also work with national clinical trial consortia such as the Children&#8217;s Oncology Group and the Pediatric Early Phase Clinical Trials Network to make advanced treatments available more quickly and equitably, the hospital said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/cancer-nonprofit-cals-angels\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal&#8217;s Angels<\/a> was founded in the memory of a 12-year-old boy named Cal Sutter, who inspired others throughout his courageous battle with leukemia. The foundation grants wishes to children, supports families, and drives research that provides true hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago&#8217;s Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital this week launched a new advanced leukemia program. The program was spearheaded by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":338374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[235,6958,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-338373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-cancer","9":"tag-cancer-research","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115451867217502828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}