Sunday 21 February 2010
Wear a Hat Day in Brain Tumour Awareness Month
Brain Tumour Action are encouraging organisations, schools, colleges even local churches and pubs to pick a date in March and hold a Wear a Hat day for brain tumours and donate a pound (or more if they so wish) to go towards brain tumour research.
33% more children died from a brain tumour in 2007 than 2001
16,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with a brain tumour each year
More children and people under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than leukaemia or any other cancer and five year survival is still only 14%
For more information please visit our website www.braintumouraction.org.uk or our partner's site at www.braintumourresearch.org
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Between 5 and 10 percent of babies with Down syndrome develop a transient form of leukemia that usually resolves on its own. However, for reasons that haven't been clear, 20 to 30 percent of these babies progress to a more serious leukemia known as Down syndrome acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (DS-AMKL), which affects the blood progenitor cells that form red blood cells and platelets. Now, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have found a gene regulator they believe to be a key player in DS-AMKL, advancing understanding of how the disease develops and how to treat it.
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