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News items on 'Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia'
Leukaemia boy's video to reassure ill children
(The Scotsman 07/06/2009)
A SEVEN-year-old leukaemia patient is helping other children through their treatment by allowing his own chemotherapy to be filmed, his mother said yesterday. Sam Sharp kept smiling throughout the video as a needle was inserted into his chest - and even turned to the camera to say: "This doesn't hurt." The youngster, from Mildenhall, Suffolk, was one of 26 young cancer patients honoured during a day out yesterday at London Zoo, organised by Cancer Research UK and TK Maxx.
Cancer boy given truancy warning
(BBC 10/03/2009)
A mother of a Leicestershire boy with leukaemia has criticised government guidelines after he was sent a truancy policy document detailing his absences. Louise Yates, from Shepshed, asked for permission to take six-year-old son Travis to visit the Vatican for a blessing with the Pope. Ms Yates was granted permission by St Botolph's School but was also sent the letter about truancy.
Study into coffee 'link' to childhood leukaemia
(The Scotsman 26/01/2009)
Dr Marcus Cooke, from the University of Leicester said: "It's been known for years that caffeine enhances the effects of DNA-damaging agents...these changes are elevated in leukaemia patients. I wonder if caffeine can somehow sensitise cells or increase the risk of (childhood) leukaemia?'" The team is undertaking a 1 year pilot study working with a group of 1,340 pregnant women.
Faulty gene makes children who live near power lines more likely to develop leukaemia
(Daily Mail 20/12/2008)
Scientists at the Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in Shanghai studied 123 children under 15 with leukaemia and found that those with a faulty variant of the XRCC1 gene were 4.3 times more likely to develop leukaemia if they lived within 330ft of a power line or an electricity transformer.
Hope for children with leukaemia as scientists find new way to 'buy time' for transplants
(Daily Mail 19/12/2008)
A study on mice showed that leukaemia cells handicap healthy blood-forming stem cells using powerful chemical signals. But jamming the potent signals protects the vital stem cells - allowing them to replenish the blood. If the same system works in humans, this process could help preserve healthy blood cells in people with leukemia, said Dr. Sipkins of the University of Chicago Medical Centre.
'Right to die' girl granted final wish of Disneyworld trip
(Telegraph 18/11/2008)
A terminally ill girl who won the right to die after a hospital dropped its attempt to force her to have a heart transplant (following leukaemia) has been granted her final wish of a trip to Disneyworld. She was "delighted" when an anonymous British insurance company agreed to provide cover, worth an estimated £5million.
Minor medicine
(BBC 11/11/2008)
She may only be 13, but terminally-ill Hannah Jones still has the right to have a say over her treatment. The Herefordshire teenager turned down a potentially life-saving heart transplant after deciding she had had enough of medical help after spending the previous eight years in-and-out of hospital battling leukaemia and heart problems. It has been ruled her decision should be respected.
Life blood
(BBC 11/09/2008)
'Cord bank' could save many more like Eva. Cord blood provides a way to give a patient the ability to produce new blood cells after this has been lost through illness or aggressive treatment. As well as patients with blood cancers, those with sickle cell disease and immune problems could benefit.
Donor found for leukaemia boy
(BBC 01/09/2008)
A bone marrow donor for a six-year-old boy with leukaemia is found but doctors face a race against time.
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