Translations:Types/leukemia/patient/child-all-treatment-pdq/182/en

• Proteasome inhibitor therapy is a type of targeted therapy that blocks the action of proteasomes in cancer cells. Proteasomes remove proteins no longer needed by the cell. When the proteasomes are blocked, the proteins build up in the cell and may cause the cancer cell to die. Bortezomib is a type of proteasome inhibitor therapy used to treat relapsed childhood ALL.