Bloodwise meeting today

This is where I have been on the first meeting of the day... and a brilliant morning of sharing .. very stimulating... and was able to get my concern over the Syrian refugees and incidence of cancers including leukaemia.  This was a good meeting for me to revise and add to my knowledge from the time I worked in oncology as a nurse........Had two meetings but all round Russel Square so was able to attend this Bloodwise conference at the UCL Institute of Child Health and then nip round to SOAS to the Syria Solidarity UK meeting.

I am fascinated by the family of cells generated by stem cells.  I was asking about at birth best to clamp cord and harvest stem cells to store in a bank for the future - or to not clamp cord and allow natural transfusion of the cord blood with stem cell.  Then also given we were in the child health institute and some of the cancers being seen at the Turkish/Syria border got me thinking on the role of the Thymus gland in childhood and whether friend or foe in the look at blood cancers.  One of the doctors was able to tell me he had been working on such a question.  So need to read up on his work.  That is a day in the library sorted...!!

The treatment that fascinates me is the antibody therapy with the naked antibody that identifies abnormal cell markers, then you can load these antibodies with toxins to destroy the cancer cells.  I need to read more on this to share with you later. 

Managed to get some leaflets to distribute to my GP surgery, Uxbridge Healthwatch and will drop some in the Community Cancer Centre.. 

You can also learn more from the website 

https://bloodwise.org.uk/