leukaemia

Aila Milne was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia last July when she was just five months old. She had four rounds of chemotherapy of 10 days each, with up to three blood transfusions a day to recover her red blood cells and…

A 63-year-old woman who initially thought her breathlessness was due to being less fit than she used to be was later diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. Gill Winsor, from Essex, initially dismissed her symptoms until she spotted a lump…

A mother who was told she had tonsillitis by her GP ended up diagnosing herself with leukaemia — using Dr Google. Chloe-Leigh Todd, 22, from Gateshead, sought advice in March 2020 after having been ill for a month with a sore throat. On top…

A mother-of-one who says she was questioned by doctors about abusing her baby due to his mystery bruises has told of how the blotches were actually down to leukaemia. Beth Reilly, from Wallasey in Merseyside, first became concerned about…

A new study shows a diet high in vitamin A or its analogues might assist adolescents and young adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in lowering their risk of painful pancreatic inflammation during chemotherapy. Vitamin-A…

Leukaemia that often starts in bone marrow is a type of cancer that destroys body's ability to make healthy blood cells. It mostly affects white blood cells and it can be both aggressive or slow-spreading depending on the type of…

A girl was diagnosed with leukaemia after bungling NHS medics wrongly told her parents she was fine.Ilona Zahorszki begged 10 different medics to test her daughter Theano's blood after she came down with sudden a range of illnesses to rule…

A 13-year-old girl has been cleared of her terminal cancer after a world-first trial involving a revolutionary type of medicine.Alyssa had undergone chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant – but her leukaemia remained.The teenager from…

According to a new phase 2 clinical trial led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute doctors, a three-medicine combination that drove chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) patients into profound remissions in a clinical study is very beneficial in…

The only thing that scared Jessica Pearce more than being told her son had leukaemia was when doctors admitted he'd been misdiagnosed - but they had no clue what was wrong with him. "It was a strange moment because there was a sense of…