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Oscar Saxelby-Lee: Stem cell match boy ‘doing well’
The mother of a boy with leukaemia says he is feeling "well" three weeks after a stem cell transplant. A stem cell match was found for five-year-old Oscar Saxelby-Lee after about 5,000 people joined a donor register. Olivia Saxelby said her son was treated for a virus...
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Alan’s mighty stride for Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK
We are very grateful for the outstanding efforts of all our fundraisers who are the mainstay of our charity. Here’s how Alan from Glasgow has been helping us. Alan’s KiltWalk “In July 2017 my partner’s father Bobby was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). ...
Fran Verter’s blog on World Cord Blood Day
Today on World Cord Blood Day 2018, we look back on 30 years of growth since the first cord blood transplant in 1988, and we look forward to new applications of cord blood from the frontiers of research. The charity Leukaemia and Myeloma Research UK is one of the...
It’s World Cord Blood Day on 15th November, and we need your help!
Thursday 15th November is World Cord Blood Day which highlights the importance of cord blood and its benefits to treat over 80 different diseases, such as leukaemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anaemia. We are organising a number of initiatives throughout the day. If...
Captain’s Charity Day for Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK
We are very grateful for the outstanding efforts of all our fundraisers who are the mainstay of our charity. Here’s how Grant and his local golf club in Bedfordshire have been helping us. In memory of my father I chose to raise funds for Leukaemia & Myeloma...
Ben’s head shave in memory of his father
Our story – When Ben was 15 years old, he wanted to do something in memory of his dad who died from Leukaemia when he was just two years old. When Karen was pregnant with her first child, her husband Danny was diagnosed with Leukaemia. Despite receiving a programme...
A stem cell treatment to help leukaemia patients avoid potentially deadly infections
Some leukemia patients at Norton Healthcare in the US whose immune systems are weakened by chemotherapy now have access to a new stem cell-based treatment that researchers hope will prevent potentially deadly infections. If successful, the treatment will not just help...
Storing our daughter’s stem cells for the future in the Model Cell Biobank
This is Clavy’s story, one of the first clients of Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK’s Model Cell Biobank. Clavy’s story “I have three children; my son who is now five years old, and two daughters aged three and four months old. My son spent the first two years...
Should parents bank stem cells from their baby’s umbilical cord?
‘BEST INVESTMENT EVER’: Paige, left, with her parents Carla and Kyle Poppleton and little brother Tyler Wrecked a major organ? There’s no transplant waiting list, as a new one can simply be grown in a lab. Cancer has become a minor annoyance, Alzheimer’s can be...
