mutations of mortality

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

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

LGL-leukemia

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Many people who were told that they have T-cell CLL in fact have LGL leukemia. In the Blood of 10th March there was an article on the diseas...
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John 1:13

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Children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. The description 'born not of natur...

Living in the Spirit. Galatians 5:16-18

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It is hard to live a good life. Even Jimmy Carter confessed to Playboy that he had committed adultery in his heart. The footballer, Wayne Ro...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

John 1:12

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Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God All. Not just people like him wh...
Monday, April 04, 2011

Serve one another in love. Galatians 5:13-15

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According to an American study, within 3 years almost 7 out of 10 released male prisoners will find themselves back in prison. In the UK it ...

John 1:11

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He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. In the Middle East, the giving of hospitality is the greatest responsibi...
Sunday, April 03, 2011

John 1:10

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He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. Have you ever felt that your contribution w...
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Saturday, April 02, 2011

health update

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I have finished my final course of chemotherapy. As usual I am extremely sleepy, but I shall sit in front of the TV and watch India play Sri...
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Gleevec for CLL

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Mcl-1 is one of those anti-apoptotic proteins that belong to the bcl-2 family. It may well be the most important in CLL. A paper from Liverp...
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NICE approves azacytidine for MDS

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On March 23, 2011, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published guidance on the use of azacitidine for the tre...

John 1:9

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The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. Pilate said, "What is truth?" and today post-modernists re...
Friday, April 01, 2011

John 1: 8

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He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. He may have been a miracle baby but he was a minor player in the drama...
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Prognostic markers again.

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A new paper from Montserrat's group on prognostic markers in stage A CLL suggests that the most useful indicators of a short progression...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Voodoo Histories.

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In my 30 years in charge of a blood bank we only twice gave a patient the wrong blood. The first occasion was when the othopedic ward was cl...

Bunsen burners

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Today is the 200th anniversary of Robert Bunsen, inventor of the famous Bunsen Burner, with which every school lab is equipped with dozens. ...

Freedom! Galatians 5: 1-12

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America is the most Christian nation on the planet. But in American movies the watchword is not "Salvation" but "Freedom...

John 1:7

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He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. The word witness is the same word that we ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

John 1:6

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There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John. This was John the big dipper. He was baptizing in the Jordan where there was much...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

John 1:5

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The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. What is this darkness? Was not the creation the work of God's ...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Slave or free. Galatians 4:21-31.

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Paul continues his arguement contrasting the Law and grace by referring to the story of Abraham and the slave girl. God had promised that Ab...
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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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