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Improvements in survival rates for acute myeloid leukaemia have failed to keep pace with other leukaemias. That may be about to change.
Most children who have cancer live in the developing world where their survival rate is less than 25%. In Kenya awareness about childhood cancer is low and treatment isn't always readily available.
An overview of the most common problems in our blood: bleeding disorders, clotting disorders and cancer.
One of the confirmed causes of Chronic myeloid leukaemia is contact with an atomic weapon or nuclear radiation. Other risks factors of this type of cancer are still being established.
Currently, seven cancer types are listed in the top 20 causes of death in Australia. These are cancers of the lung, blood and lymph, bowel, prostate, breast, pancreas, skin and some childhood cancers.
Chernobyl is already responsible for up to 5,000 cases of cancer in Europe.
Innovative new drugs to treat cancer frequently make the headlines, either due to great success or controversy, as pharmaceutical companies get lambasted for selling the drugs at too high a price for state…
Babies who develop leukaemia in their first few years of life seem to inherit a rare combination of genes from their parents…
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cancer Research, Newcastle University
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Professor of Blood Cancer Research, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Section Head Section of Environment and Radiation at IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
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Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
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Professor of Medicine, section of Haematology and Oncology, University of Nairobi
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Assistant Lecturer in Internal Medicine & Medical Oncology/Haematology, University of Nairobi
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Fellow Haematology-Oncology, University of Nairobi
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Researcher, University of Nairobi
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Adjunct associate professor, Monash University
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Program Director, Department of Medicine, The Aga Khan University
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Department of Child Health and Paediatrics, consultant Paediatrician, Moi University
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Aberdeen
