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About The Leukaemia Research Fund

21,500 people are diagnosed with leukaemia or one of the related cancers of the blood in UK every year.

650 children develop leukaemia, lymphoma or aplastic anaemia every year. This accounts for half of all childhood cancers.

Much progress has been made in treating leukaemia and the related diseases since we started our work in 1960. At that time, the average life expectancy for a child with leukaemia was just four months. Today almost 80% of children with the most common leukaemia survive.

Advances in the treatment for adults with blood cancer have been made. Young adults with Hodgkin's disease have a very good chance of survival. The survival rate for adults with leukaemia is about 30%, though this figure encompasses some impressive survival figures for some types of disease while others are still stubbornly hard to treat.

Most patients live longer lives with their illness under control and have a better quality of life.

The fund is totally independent and funds research purely on merit.

The Leukaemia Research Fund commits over £20 million annually to Universities, Medical Schools and teaching hospitals throughout the UK for research into cancers of the blood. Our research has four main goals:

To discover the cause of leukaemia and related cancers
To understand how blood cells become cancerous
To continually refine diagnostic methods for the rapid and accurate assessment of disease
To devise new treatments for the cancers of the blood

LRF running costs are only 8p for every £1 raised.

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