Here is the discovery that could lead to more people being cured of leukemia

It is unusual for one-year-old Alice Ström in Varberg, who we met in a report on SVT, to be born with leukemia. An average of four such cases occur per year in Sweden, according to cancer researcher Marcus Järås at Lund University.

- About a hundred children in Sweden are diagnosed with leukemia every year, he says.

90 percent are declared healthy with today's treatment methods.

Among the ten percent who are not declared healthy, there are patients with the particularly aggressive and difficult-to-treat form of leukemia, which goes by the name acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

And it is in cancer cells with AML in particular that Marcus Järås and his research team have made a discovery that raises hopes that more people can be cured in the future.

In adults, the proportion who are declared healthy is slightly lower - around 70 percent - and it is also in adult patients that AML is most common.

See the interview with associate professor Marcus Järås in the clip.