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Leukaemia UK chosen to be featured charity partner of Scrap Car Comparison

05 Mar 2025 Fundraising

Leukaemia UK chosen to be featured charity partner of Scrap Car Comparison

Leukaemia UK will be the featured charity partner of Scrap Car Comparison’s ‘Donate a Car’ scheme this March. The scheme will help raise money to stop leukaemia devastating lives by...

“Leukaemia changes everyone’s life.”: Chris Corbin OBE announced as a Leukaemia UK patron

30 Jan 2025 Other

“Leukaemia changes everyone’s life.”: Chris Corbin OBE announced as a Leukaemia UK patron

The renowned restauranteur Chris Corbin OBE has been announced as a patron for blood cancer charity Leukaemia UK. Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the stem cell transplant which saved...

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Championing groundbreaking therapies and emotional support

25 Jun 2019 Research

Championing groundbreaking therapies and emotional support

The groundbreaking new cell therapy, CAR-T has been offered for the first time on the NHS to eligible patients with...

Leukaemia UK and Leuka have merged

11 Jan 2019 Governance

Leukaemia UK and Leuka have merged

We are delighted to announce that on 1 November Leuka and Leukaemia UK merged, bringing together two of the UK’s leading...

Leukaemia: Investigating stem cells to prevent cancer

11 Jan 2019 Research

Leukaemia: Investigating stem cells to prevent cancer

What is this research looking at? The development of effective treatments to prevent and eradicate leukaemia requires a better understanding...

Lymphoma: Understanding relapse and treatment resistance

11 Jan 2019 Research

Lymphoma: Understanding relapse and treatment resistance

What is this research looking at? Our immune system is remarkable. It is made up of many different types of...

Myelofibrosis: Finding new ways to treat patients

11 Jan 2019 Research

Myelofibrosis: Finding new ways to treat patients

Myelofibrosis is a fatal bone marrow cancer. The disease is caused by excessive secretion of factors by cancerous platelet-producing cells...

Nick Boles’ Ambulatory Care Unit opening speech

15 Jun 2018 Awareness raising

Nick Boles’ Ambulatory Care Unit opening speech

Nick Boles, Conservative MP for Grantham and Stanford, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2007 and experienced a relapse almost...

MP opens Leukaemia UK Ambulatory Care Unit

15 Jun 2018 Awareness raising

MP opens Leukaemia UK Ambulatory Care Unit

A unit funded by Leukaemia UK which allows people with blood cancers to have stem cell transplants as outpatients has...

Sharing this exciting news: a treatment advance for childhood leukaemia

09 May 2018 Research

Sharing this exciting news: a treatment advance for childhood leukaemia

A deal has been struck to let the NHS offer children an expensive new cancer therapy that has been called...

Blood cancer and your emotions – an expert’s insight

09 Jan 2018 Other

Blood cancer and your emotions – an expert’s insight

Philip Alexander is a haemato-oncology counsellor and cognitive behaviour psychotherapist at King’s College Hospital in London, and one of four...