mutations of mortality

Random thoughts of Terry Hamblin about leukaemia, literature, poetry, politics, religion, cricket and music.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

All we need is love I Peter 1:22-25

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That “God is love” is undoubtedly a Biblical truth, but the Beatles' "All we need is love" goes too far. I remember many years...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

CCTV cameras

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It keeps coming up in the press. I heard it on the radio. Big Brother is watching us. A story the other day about how few crimes are solved ...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Line infection

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When I had my Hickman line flushed on Wednesday I became aware that the tunnel line was a bit inflamed with a small patch of redness around ...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Elements of Danger - Medical Imaging

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An article in today's New England Journal of Medicine needs to be considered by everyone with CLL. It is probably true that patients wit...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Fear God? 1 Peter 1:17-21.

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Have you ever been really scared? I remember occasions when I have been a bit frightened. Lying awake as a child and picking out monsters fr...
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The Lockerbie bomber

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The decision of the Scottish government to release the Lockerbie bomber who is dying of prostate cancer has been very controversial in the U...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Alcohol problems.

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David Cameron has pledged to raise taxes of high-alcohol beers and alcopops if he wins the next election. He will get brickbats from the rig...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Danny's take on the healthcare debate

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A fascinating article in today's Times from Danny Finkelstein. Here is a quote: The debate about American reform begins with the America...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Holiness: an impossible dream? 1 Peter 1:14-16

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My old Jaguar S type is getting a bit long in the tooth. I enjoy driving it still, but it has 80k miles on the clock and a few car park fata...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Ostentatious wealth and Christian charity

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I saw an amusing comment on a website yesterday. The response was following a newspaper article which picked up on Alan Duncan's remarks...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Treatment holiday

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I spoke to my oncologist yesterday. The CT scan after 8 courses shows no improvement on that after 5 courses. What does that mean? It could ...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

American health debate

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In an editorial in the newspaper, Investor's Business Daily, it was claimed: ' People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The cause of CLL

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The extreme differences in geographical variation worldwide ought to give us a clue as to the etiology of CLL. Prevalence rates show a 40-fo...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Peripheral neuropathy

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If you knock your elbow you often experience the sensation. The outside of your hand becomes numb and it's like an electric shock going ...
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Sunday, August 09, 2009

Prepare the mind; control the self. 1 Peter 1:13

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Whenever there's a 'therefore' ask yourself what it's there for. A silly little ditty, but Peter begins verse 13 of his lett...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

New hymn.

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In 1989 Rich Mullins wrote a short chorus "Our God is an awesome God" which we often sing in church. The tune sounds Israeli and w...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Another day

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Quite a quiet day today. The weather, while not as bad as 2008 and 2007, still remains very changeable with more rain today. We took a trip ...
Saturday, August 01, 2009

The TCL1 story

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For the past couple of weeks I have been seeking to understand the TCL1 story. This is the result, though I have to confess that it is very ...
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The art of captaincy

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Yesterday was the day I was supposed to be going to the Test Match. My son had bought me a ticket. This was the first Test Match that I was ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Reading and sleeping

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Day 15: this is my first day of a third week without chemotherapy. The side effects were getting so bad that I have been given a week's ...
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Terry Hamblin
Born in Worcester, England 1943; school at Farnborough, Hampshire 1954-62; University 1962-7 and junior doctor posts 1967-74 in Bristol; Consultant Haematologist Bournemouth 1974-2003; Professor of Immunohaematology Southampton 1986 to present. Honorary Consultant Haematologist Kings College Hospital, London, 2004-present. After 5 years of working part time researching, writing, reviewing, editing, speaking, sitting on committees, advising, answering questions and thinking, I now think of myself as fully retired apart from my role as Editor in Chief of the medical journal Leukemia Research. I was awarded the Binet-Rai medal for outstanding research in CLL in 2002 and this has been my most sucessful area of research, but I have also made important contributions in the fields of apheresis, stem cell transplantation, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome, antibody therapy, cytokine therapy and DNA vaccines. I was once mascot for Aldershot Town Football. Club. Married to Diane for 44 years. Four children, Karen, Richard, Angela and David.
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