Naoko Hosono

Acute leukemia therapy at a crossroads: from conventional chemotherapy to the era of precision medicine.

Since the discovery of cytotoxic agents in the mid-20th century, acute leukemia has consistently served as a model for oncology research. As the Human Genome Project and subsequent genomic profiling elucidated the landscape of somatic mutations and cytogenetic aberrations driving leukemogenesis, the development of mole...