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How a virus can lead to lymphoma
Some types of lymphoma are associated with high levels of a small piece of genetic material called microRNA-155. Professor Michelle West has been investigating how a virus that causes lymphoma increases the production of this cancer-driving microRNA.
Blood Cancer UK research highlights 2018
From CAR-T therapy to a new understanding of how leukaemia develops in children. We look back at some of the breakthroughs our supporters help us fund.
Over half of Brits don’t know symptoms of blood cancer
How myeloproliferative neoplasms disrupt the work of blood stem cells
Blood stem cells need to strike a delicate balance between making other types of blood cells and renewing themselves. When myeloproliferative neoplasms happen, this balance is disrupted. Recent research carried out by Bloodwise-funded researchers at the University of Cambridge has revealed the genetic changes that cause these disruptions.
More people with CLL to benefit from ibrutinib in future
More people living with a type of leukaemia in England will soon have access to Ibrutinib, thanks to a successful campaign by Bloodwise and other organisations.
Blood cancers taking longer to be diagnosed than other cancers
Looking back on blood cancer research breakthroughs through the decades
Successful stem cell transplants without chemotherapy or radiotherapy?
How does acute promyelocytic leukaemia begin?
Professor Ellen Solomon and the late Professor David Grimwade received Blood Cancer UK funding to investigate how acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) develops. Here's a breakdown of what they discovered.