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Terry Robson-Petch has been living with CML for 20 years.
The greatest unmet need in CML is the ability to predict outcomes at the time of diagnosis according to Dr Naranie Shanmuganathan, a consultant haematologist at Royal Adelaide Hospital and SA Pathology.
The week before Regina Batten’s wedding, in August 2017, she was diagnosed with AML. She had just celebrated her 30th birthday and was about to marry the father of her three children.
Dr Cameron Curley describes CAR T-cell therapy as “arguably the biggest breakthrough in the treatment of many blood cancers in the last decade”.
A clinical trial, due to open in mid-2022, will give young people access to two promising new ALL drugs.
Ongoing fatigue was the symptom that prompted Phil Nicholls to have his first medical assessment in years and it resulted in his diagnosis with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).