|  |  | Research News Archive for January-March 2008 |
 | Aberdeen scientists make advance in understanding of common blood cancer |
| |  | | Aberdeen University scientists, funded by leading UK blood cancer charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research and Friends of ANCHOR, have made significant progress into understanding how non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), the sixth most common cancer in the UK, can avoid detection by the body's normal immune system. | | Release date: 28 February 2008 |  |
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| Cardiff scientists make breakthrough in search for cure for common blood cancer |
| |  | | Cardiff University researchers, funded by leading UK cancer charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, have made significant progress in developing a new treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), the most common leukaemia in adults in the UK. | | Release date: 07 February 2008 | |
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| Stem cells which cause childhood leukaemia found |
| |  | | A breakthrough study of identical twins has for the first time confirmed the existence of cancer stem cells that cause the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) – backing evidence that this childhood cancer starts in the womb. The research should lead to less aggressive treatment for childhood ALL and provides the hope of new, more effective drugs. | | Release date: 16 January 2008 | |
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| Oxford scientists' discovery to aid cancer diagnosis |
| |  | | A research team in Oxford has discovered the next piece in a genetic jigsaw involved in switching genes on and off, which may hold the key to improved diagnosis of non Hodgkin's lymphoma, the sixth most common cancer in the UK. | | Release date: 2 January 2008 | |
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