|  |  | Research News Archive for April - June 2002 |
 | SCIENTISTS PROVIDE KEY INSIGHT INTO CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA |
| |  | | 1% of all new-born children have a non-inherited gene abnormality with the potential to cause childhood leukaemia, LRF researchers have revealed in research published this month. However, only one in hundred of children with these 'leukaemic genes' will go onto develop the disease. | | Release date: 28th June 2002 |  |
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| STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEM HELPS BEAT LEUKAEMIA |
| |  | | A strong immune system is as important in patients who recover from leukaemia as their treatment, scientists reveal in research published today. | | Release date: 20th June 2002 | |
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| UNIQUE CELL CREATE WORKING THYMUS |
| |  | | Researchers at the Centre for Genome Research (University of Edinburgh) have identified a unique stem cell type in mice that can produce a working thymus - a vital immune organ that makes infection-fighting white blood cells (T-cells). | | Release date: 19th June 2002 | |
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| JACK'S DIARY |
| |  | | When Deborah Hubbard's son Jack was diagnosed with leukaemia, aged five, she and her husband Ray, thought it was the end of the world. As they struggled to come to terms with his diagnosis, Jack was faced with strange hospitals, sometimes painful treatments, loss of hair and much time off school. | | Release date: 12th June 2002 | |
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| £900,000 BOOST TO CANCER RESEARCH IN SALISBURY |
| |  | | Salisbury scientists have been awarded £900,000 by the Leukaemia Research Fund to carry out pioneering research into a blood cancer called myeloma. | | Release date: 10th June 2002 | |
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| SCIENTIST OFF TO HARVARD AFTER WINNING PRESTIGIOUS AWARD |
| |  | | 35-year old Brian Huntly from Edinburgh will be off to Harvard in the US for two years to push forward with his pioneering cancer research, after winning a prestigious award from the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF). | | Release date: 29th May 2002 | |
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| SOUTH LONDON SCIENTIST WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD |
| |  | | Dr Emma Morris, a young haematologist from Streatham in South London, has won a prestigious senior research award from the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF). The LRF Senior Bennett Fellowship will enable her to carry out pioneering research into bone marrow transplantation (BMT). | | Release date: 28th May 2002 | |
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| RESEARCHERS FOCUS ON LINK BETWEEN VIRUS AND CANCER |
| |  | | Scientists from the University of Glasgow have been awarded £210,000 by the Leukaemia Research Fund (LRF) to examine the link between a common human virus called Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and a group of blood cancers called lymphoma. | | Release date: 15th May 2002 | |
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| IMMUNOTHERAPY - HYPE OF HOPE? |
| |  | | The study of immunology - harnessing the power of the body's immune system - has advanced more than any other biomedical discipline over the last 20 years, according to some of the countries leading cancer scientists. | | Release date: 20th April 2002 | |
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