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*January - March 2004
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*Research News Archive for January - March 2004


*LIVERPOOL DOCTORS DEVELOP NOVEL CANCER VACCINE
*Scientists
Doctors in Liverpool are developing a new treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) that uses a protein attached to cancer cells, to vaccinate patients against their own disease.
Release date: 11th March 2004

*CANTERBURY CASH BOOST FOR LEUKAEMIA
*Dr Peter Nicholls
Pioneering cancer scientists from Canterbury have today been awarded £55,000 by Leukaemia Research to push forward their work developing a novel treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia.
Release date: 2nd March 2004

*NOTTINGHAM SCIENTISTS TARGET NOVEL CANCER TREATMENT
*Myeloma cells
University of Nottingham scientists are developing a novel treatment for myeloma, a cancer of the blood that affects 3,000 people in the UK each year. Armed with a new grant of £100,000 from Leukaemia Research, they believe a protein produced by the patient's own cancer cells can be used to stimulate an immune response against the disease.
Release date: 19th January 2004

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