ATM and leukemia: Gallic acid has shown some activities that include in the following: angiogenesis, repression of cell viability and reproduction in human glioma cells, prevention of the propagation of HeLa cervical cancer cells, inhibition of ribonucleotide reductase, induction of apoptosis in humoral cell lines, prevention of lymphocyte duplication and cyclooxygenases in human HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells, stimulation inactivating phosphorylation via ATM-Chk2 activation and anti-oxidant activity [11,18,19].