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Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research have written an article about the recognition of their innovative clinical trials programme in the new government report....

Founder Admin•12 years ago

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TAP and the Strategy for UK Life Sciences: One Year On

Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research have written an article about the recognition o...

Founder Admin•12 years ago

A recent study has brought together prognostic data to include the recently discovered molecular markers: BIRC3, SF3B1, and NOTCH 1. The hope is that in time...

New prognostic markers and better understanding of risk groups?

A recent study has brought together prognostic data to include the recently disc...

Founder Admin•12 years ago

Due to additional stress (hubby having to have treatment for prostate cancer) plus a bad time while I was on trial with new drug during 2012, spending so much...

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HAS ANYONE ON THE PAGE HAD EXPERIENCE WITH ANTI DEPRESSANTS?

Due to additional stress (hubby having to have treatment for prostate cancer) pl...

roan

•12 years ago

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New Horizon in Oral Medication for Blood Cancer Treatment

Andrew Schorr recorded this interview with the president of The American Society of Hematology (ASH) at the start of the conference. CLL is clearly identified...

Andrew Schorr recorded this interview with the president of The American Society...

A series of hard-hitting government adverts featuring people smoking cigarettes with a tumour growing from the end is being launched in England. The ads...

Founder Admin•12 years ago

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Just 15 cigarettes can cause a mutation that leads to cancerous tumours

A series of hard-hitting government adverts featuring people smoking cigarettes ...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

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Anybody in North Wales with CLL?

Please reply if you are?

littleriver

•12 years ago

Have had two rounds of FCR so far.

What does it mean when platelets continue to decline while on FCR?

irish828

•12 years ago

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Advantages of having CLL?

There must be silver linings to the clouds of CLL. What positives have come out of your diagnosis? One of mine was that through regular blood tests, I...

There must be silver linings to the clouds of CLL. What positives have come out...

AussieNeil

Administrator•12 years ago

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Can anyone provide feedback on their experiences with sweats are they a constant thing or do they come and go?

bantamsheffield

•12 years ago

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Medical breakthrough to save millions of lives

Perhaps you thought this blog was news of some new anti-cancer drug, but it's the headline that should have been used worldwide in 1854 when Dr Snow made the...

Perhaps you thought this blog was news of some new anti-cancer drug, but it's th...

AussieNeil

Administrator•12 years ago

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Syk inhibitor... new target kinase... pre-clinical characteristics of P505-15

The selective Syk inhibitor P505-15 (PRT062607) inhibits B cell signaling and function in vitro and in vivo, and augments the activity of fludarabine in...

The selective Syk inhibitor P505-15 (PRT062607) inhibits B cell signaling and fu...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

Information such as on this site is key to getting better treatment. The ASH videos have been excellent. None are OTT but down to earth. The blogs about...

Information is the key to better treatment

Information such as on this site is key to getting better treatment. The ASH vid...

jangreen

•12 years ago

This is a YouTube video that is interesting regarding the news about the new drugs that are being trialed. But also for the UK CLL Patients there is, in the...

ASH Information

This is a YouTube video that is interesting regarding the news about the new dru...

Kwenda

•12 years ago

Sharing your stories does help others, the heterogeneous nature of CLL means we are likely to experience our own version of the disease and will handle it in...

People experiences.

Sharing your stories does help others, the heterogeneous nature of CLL means we ...

Founder Admin•12 years ago

A Personal Perspective on CLL and Myelofibrosis Progress...

CLL patient advocate and journalist, Andrew Schorr shares his story with CLL patient Dr Brian Koffman from the other side of the lens.

Founder Admin•12 years ago

This full paper has just become available and it is an important topic, unfortunately. 'Refractory CLL has been defined as no response or response...

Risk categories and refractory CLL in the era of chemoimmunotherapy

This full paper has just become available and it is an important topic, unfortun...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

New research from Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center investigates an alternative method to make CART tumour specific by involving another type of receptor...

An interesting development in CAR t-cell research

New research from Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center investigates an alternative me...

Founder Admin•12 years ago

Dr. William Wierda is head of the CLL section there and is leading some innovative research with CARs that could lead to making it less expensive and more...

CAR research at MDAnderson ... Patient Power Interview from ASH 2012

Dr. William Wierda is head of the CLL section there and is leading some innovati...

CNIO researchers develop new databases for understanding the human genome CNIO creates 2 new databases, APPRIS and ChiTaRS, that hold thousands of...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

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RNAs and illness in the chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 2 new genome databases

CNIO researchers develop new databases for understanding the human genome ...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

Well, lets see, I have CLL, and I am 53, and I am not getting any younger. As if that wasn't enough to cope with, I live in England. Joy of bloody joys :-)...

Call for rethink over older cancer patients (December 2012)

Well, lets see, I have CLL, and I am 53, and I am not getting any younger. As...

Hidden

•12 years ago

Downright sneaky if you ask me... Cancer Cells Co-opt Immune Response to Escape Destruction...

News from UC San Diego Health System

Downright sneaky if you ask me... Cancer Cells Co-opt Immune Response to Esca...

Hidden

•12 years ago

MACMILLAN'S AGE OLD EXCUSE CAMPAIGN We all have different needs and older people are no exception. Some are frail, whilst others are fit and...

The Age Old Excuse Campaign

MACMILLAN'S AGE OLD EXCUSE CAMPAIGN We all have different needs a...

Founder Admin•12 years ago

Hi everyone - and Merry Christmas! I was just reading Taliesin's really interesting blog post about what changes for us after being diagnosed with CLL -...

Living with CLL

Hi everyone - and Merry Christmas! I was just reading Taliesin's really i...

jibs60

•12 years ago

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How CLL has effected my life

I am now 56yrs old and was diagnosed when I was 50 in 2006. I was unhappy in the way I was told by the phone by my GP who just dismissed CLL. I have since...

I am now 56yrs old and was diagnosed when I was 50 in 2006. I was unhappy in the...

jangreen

•12 years ago

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Implications of new prognostic markers in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Advanced topic

Implications of new prognostic markers in chronic lymphocytic leukemia by Nicholas Chiorazzi, world leading CLL researcher. This is the latest information on...

Implications of new prognostic markers in chronic lymphocytic leukemia by Nicho...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

The development of relatively well-tolerated and highly active kinase inhibitors raises the question about their future role in the treatment of CLL....

Emerging role of kinase-targeted strategies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia ...very advanced, but may be the future....

The development of relatively well-tolerated and highly active kinase inhibitors...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

Physical Activity (PA) and CLL ...large study There was a decreased risk of hematologic malignancies associated with Physical Activity. These...

Physical activity and hematological malignancies... decreased risk...significant in CLL

Physical Activity (PA) and CLL ...large study There was a decreased risk of h...

Recently, next generation sequencing has revealed additional recurrent alterations in CLL targeting the NOTCH1, SF3B1, and BIRC3 genes. NOTCH1, SF3B1, and...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

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The Spectrum of Genetic Defects in CLL... complex

Recently, next generation sequencing has revealed additional recurrent alteratio...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago

Acadesine, , 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide- 1-D-ribofuranoside or AICA-riboside, is a water soluble nucleoside with a different mechanism of action compared...

Acadesine for patients with relapsed/refractory (CLL). Like fludarabine but very different.

Acadesine, , 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide- 1-D-ribofuranoside or AICA-riboside...

Top Poster CURE Hero•12 years ago