mutations of mortality

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

Friday, December 02, 2011

Abortion and cytotoxic drugs

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One of the things on my conscience concerns abortion. I have always held strict opinions about it and would opt out of being concerned in an...

Another attempt to get FCA up front

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This is not quite the right trial, but it is an attempt by the Dutch group to introduce alemtuzumab up front in high risk patients. The othe...

Second-line treatment after CLL8

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What do the early relapsers from CLL8 actually get as second line treatment and does it work? The information in this German ASH abstract te...
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Should we CT scan all new Rai stage 0 patients?

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2837 Inclusion of Total BODY Computed Tomography (TB-CT) SCANS In the INITIAL WORK-up of Binet STAGE A CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL) PA...

A role for ras genes in chlorambucil resistance?

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From this Italian ASH abstract it seems that Chlorambucil-rituximab is a promising regimen in CLL patients over-65. Those who respond have m...

More outrage in Nigeria

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From Open Doors Over 150 people have been killed and 10 churches demolished in a carefully planned attack on the Christian community in Dama...

What's going on with Occupy London?

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This from Today's Times: It was supposed to be a protest against the evils of capitalism, among other things, but the St Paul’s Cathedra...
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John 8:25-26. No excuses

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“Who are you?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied. “I have much to say in judgment of you. Bu...

Aid to India. Even they are embarrassed and have asked us to stop it next year.

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I don't believe everything I read in the Daily Mail. It is a right-wing tabloid with an agenda. But here is what Sue Reid writes after a...
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Thursday, December 01, 2011

CLL8 the same bad news is bad news.

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977 Prediction of Poor Outcome in CLL Patients Treated with FCR (Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide, Rituximab) in the CLL8 Trial of the German C...
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ASCT buys a later second treatment for 4 months of impaired quality of life.

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There is still some lingering thought that autologous stem cell transplant is an advantageous way of treating some cases of CLL, despite pap...

Persecution in Kashmir

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An Indian pastor who baptised converts from Islam was arrested and his church raided following a sharia court hearing. Rev. Chander Mani Kha...

Religious freedom in Kazakhstan

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Religious freedom is not something that most countries in the world subscribe to. In the UK religious freedom is subsidiary to supporting ga...

Hindu threats to Christians in Nepal

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My home town of Aldershot has had a massive influx of Nepalese Ghurkas, which has embarrassed the town council in their ability to provide h...

How exactly do American doctors treat CLL?

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Back to the ASH abstracts. This is one that tries to work out what is actually hapenning in America with the treament of CLL. 2864 Patterns ...

Yesterday's strikes

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Withe the Help of David Aaronovitch of the Times: Yesterday’s strikes were, in historical terms, a pinprick. The co-ordinated day of action ...

More troubles

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I had another fall this morning. I slipped while coming downstairs and twisted the knee I injured 50 years ago. I have a longstanding anteri...
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John 8:23-24. Only believe

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But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your...

Another benefits cheat

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A drummer in a marching band who claimed he could walk no more than 15 yards and couldn’t even tie his own shoelaces has been exposed as a b...

Benefits culture

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What benefits frauds do with their ill-gotten gains: For the past decade, the Whitney family have been spoken of in hushed tones on the back...
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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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