|  | | |  | Research News Archive for July - September 2008 |
 | Study reveals genetic links to CLL |
| |  | | Leukaemia Research funded scientists led by Professor Richard Houlston at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton have now shown that there is a genetic susceptibility to developing chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), the most common form of leukaemia in the Western World. | | Release date: 25 Sep 2008 |  |
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| Leukaemia Research welcomes High Court ruling on availabilty of drug for myeloma patient |
| |  | | Leukaemia Research welcomes the High Court ruling that Mr Colin Ross, who has myeloma, should receive treatment with Revlimid™. The case arose after a decision by West Sussex Primary Care Trust (PCT) that Mr Ross’s situation should not be treated as exceptional, even though his consultants at Royal Marsden Hospital had appealed to the Trust to allow him to receive the drug. | | Release date: 12 Sep 2008 | |
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| Henry Scot-Simmonds - Call for bone marrow donors |
| |  | | Family and friends of Henry Scot-Simmonds face an agonising race against time to save the life of the popular 24-year-old ex Pates Grammar School pupil. Henry has been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. His only chance of survival is to have a bone marrow transplant. | | Release date: 29 August 2008 | |
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| New treatment in trial for AML successfully recruits first patient |
| |  | | Joanne Scott, 53, who has acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), was recently given only eight months to live after several courses of chemotherapy failed and clinicians were unable to find a suitable match for a bone marrow transplant. | | Release date: 27 August 2008 | |
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| Early warning of leukaemia or false alarm? |
| |  | | Researchers have for the first time shown that many people have cells in their blood which appear identical to leukaemia and yet the risk of developing the disease for most is virtually zero. This has prompted the question that while early detection of cancer greatly improves the chances of successful treatment, is it possible that some cancers are being detected too early? | | Release date: 31 july 2008 | |
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| Cardiff scientists develop new understanding of common blood cancer |
| |  | | Scientists at Cardiff University, funded by Leukaemia Research, have taken another step forward in their ongoing research into better treatments for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, the commonest form of leukaemia in the Western world. | | Release date: 17 July 2008 | |
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| Canterbury researchers accept generous donation from Freemasons |
| |  | | Dr Peter Nicholls and his team at the University of Kent welcomed local supporters of Leukaemia Research to their laboratories in Canterbury at an event on 2 July, which was organised to coincide with a generous donation from the Freemasons’ Grand Charity of the East Kent Province, who make significant contributions to medical research charities every year. | | Release date: 10 July 2008 | |
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| Newcastle scientists make advance in treatment for blood cancer |
| |  | | Newcastle University scientists, funded by leading blood cancer charity Leukaemia Research, have taken a big step forward in improving the treatment for the commonest leukaemia in adults in the UK, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. | | Release date: 3 July 2008 | |
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| Response to study on survival rate for children with leukaemia |
| |  | | Articles in newspapers (Wednesday 2 July 2008) report that a predicted 79% per cent of children diagnosed with the commonest type of leukaemia in 1990 will survive. Yet it is well documented that survival rates for children have been increasing year on year thanks to high quality research by charities such as Leukaemia Research, the UK’s leading blood cancer charity. | | Release date: 2 July 2008 | |
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