chemotherapy

The most common treatments involve bone marrow transplants, chemotherapy and clinical trials.

She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation known as Inversion 3 and has undergone several treatments, including chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.

Despite treatment, including a bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy, she says doctors have told her the outcome does not look good.

They found that paclitaxel, a commonly used chemotherapy drug, prompts immune cells to produce large amounts of reactive oxygen species, which are molecules that place cells under stress.

The only slight improvement over two decades of effort shows "that therapies like chemotherapy and immunotherapy aren't working very well", he added.