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Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge found that in children with neuroblastoma - a cancer of immature nerve cells - treatment with platinum chemotherapy caused changes to the genome that could then cause leukaemia in some children later on.
The findings, published 27th May 2021 in
Blood could lead to an ability to identify which children are more likely to develop the secondary cancer. This in turn could lead to changes in their treatment plan to either avoid these risks or take measures to prepare.
Secondary blood cancer is a challenging complication of childhood neuroblastoma cancer treatment. Every year around 100 children in the UK are diagnosed with neuroblastoma , and those who had high-risk treatment are at an increased risk of developing secondary blood cancer - leukaemia - after neuroblastoma treatment.
Jan Sheward, chair and founder of Cancer United. Pic by Steve Robards
Grundon Waste Management and Viridor lodged initial plans last summer for an energy recovery facility as well as a waste sorting and transfer facility at the Ford Circular Technology Park.
In response to various objections they withdrew the plans and submitted a revised application last month.
Cancer United, which covers West Sussex’s coastal areas, aims to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of those with cancer from diagnosis onwards, inspiring them to embrace the things they can do and to refuse to be defined by what they can’t whilst also giving support to those close to them.
FUNDRAISER: Mark and Megan A RELATIVE of a three-year-old girl who died from a rare cancer last year is to undertake a gruelling 150-mile tandem bike ride for charity. Megan Whittaker, from Little Lever, will take on the challenge with husband Mark in aid of Children with Cancer UK. The June 26 challenge bike ride is more than 150 miles and will see the pair travel from Seascale in Cumbria to Whitby. It will take around14 hours, where they will be climbing to approximately 12,000 ft following a 5am set-off. Megan s cousin s daughter, Lily-Mai Pugh, started becoming poorly at the start of the first lockdown and was initially she was diagnosed with a viral infection.
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Globe s Audience & Content Editor, Richard Garnett, will take on the 26.2 mile internationally-acclaimed challenge after securing a charity place, running for Children With Cancer UK. This will be the second time that Richard, who is also the paper s Tranmere Rovers correspondent, has competed in the event, after running in April 2019 three months after his mother, Barbara Garnett, passed away, but this time the challenge will have even greater meaning. Richard said: It was a dream to run London in 2019 and doing it in mum s memory really helped me through a difficult moment. But what happened after that was scarcely believable.