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New leukaemia treatment made available in Scotland

Updated 08 Oct 2018

‘Next Generation’ of CAR-T therapies could hold promise for a number of cancers

Updated 11 Oct 2018

A cancer researcher works in a laboratory

Bloodwise’s recommendations for NHS England's long-term plan

Updated 11 Oct 2018

Dr Zumla Cader, Bloodwise Visiting Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, loading a sample into the CyTOF machine for analysis. Photo credit: Sam Ogden.

How does the immune system recognise and destroy Hodgkin lymphoma?

Updated 05 Oct 2018

Pioneering CAR-T therapy made available on NHS for adults with lymphoma

Updated 05 Oct 2018

It's vital that blood cancers aren't missed out of Government’s new cancer strategy

Updated 03 Oct 2018

The end of a sewing needle, with a thread passing through the eye

Through the eye of a needle: Molecular immunology and anti-cancer drugs

Updated 03 Oct 2018

Microscope

Three new Birmingham research projects launched to beat blood cancer

Updated 27 Sep 2018

George Rainsford running for Bloodwise

Casualty star George Rainsford’s 5 tips for training for your next big run

Updated 24 Sep 2018

Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise perform at a Leukaemia Research Fund gala in 1983

Stand up for blood cancer: a history of Bloodwise’s relationship with comedy

Updated 16 Oct 2018

Another CAR-T treatment provisionally turned down for use on NHS

Updated 19 Sep 2018

Dr Pedro Santos e Sousa at work in the lab

A day in the life: Pedro Santos e Sousa, graft versus host disease researcher

Updated 17 Sep 2018

Lisa and her four-year-old son Hugo pictured smiling at home

Hugo celebrates his last day of leukaemia treatment

Updated 18 Sep 2018

Mairi Shepherd, the lead researcher on this project

How myeloproliferative neoplasms disrupt the work of blood stem cells

The Make Blood Cancer Visible installation at Westfield Stratford City

Installation tours the UK to make blood cancer visible

Updated 11 Oct 2018

A cancer researcher prepares medication in laboratory

New blood cancer treatment to be used on NHS for first time

Two women sit and discuss some paperwork

Over half of Brits don’t know symptoms of blood cancer

Updated 03 Oct 2018

Red and white Bloodwise balloons

Patients, nurses and researchers join our Twitter Takeover to #MakeBloodCancerVisible

Updated 19 Sep 2018