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News items on 'Lymphoma'
(BBC 28/09/2009)
When actress Elle Seivwright remembers her father Andrew she can chuckle. Her father died three years ago from lymphoma, but she prefers not to dwell on the illness that claimed his life, but rather to focus on his life itself. So when she was approached by a cancer charity compiling a video archive of happy memories she was happy to contribute. "I thought it was a good way of advertising a charity rather than somebody in a bed looking all sorrowful with a number coming up underneath it.
Potent cancer drug hopes raised
(BBC 21/07/2009)
Doctors have developed a number of antibody-based treatments for cancer over the last decade, which have produced very impressive results. A new study, based on an analysis of leukaemia and lymphoma cells, showed that antibodies can also kill off cancer cells in a much more direct way. It showed that when an antibody binds to a cancer cell it can trigger small, acid-containing sacs called lysosomes inside the cell to swell and burst, releasing their deadly contents and killing the cell.
Grow up and stop worrying: What a doctor said to this boy months before he was killed by cancerous tumours
(Daily Mail 10/03/2009)
A teenager died from massive cancerous tumours [lymphoma] after his GP repeatedly failed to diagnose the disease and told him to 'grow up a bit and stop worrying', an inquest has heard. Christopher Chaffey, 19, was so worried about his failing health that he visited his doctor's surgery half a dozen times in the 15 months up to his death.
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