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Find Me a Cure

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia, or CLL, is the most common form of leukaemia. Reporter Simon Cox follows a medical trial in Leeds searching for a cure.

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia or CLL, is the most common form of leukaemia. It's a disease which kills. The most common treatment is with chemotherapy. If that doesn't work, most patients can only expect to live for another few years at most.

But there are dramatic developments with new targeted treatments which are less toxic than conventional chemotherapy. In this programme, reporter Simon Cox follows a medical trial based at St James' hospital in Leeds which uses a unique combination of drugs designed to defeat the cancer. It's the last hope for many patients but will it work? Can researchers find a cure?

Presenter: Simon Cox
Producer: Jim Frank
Editor: Andrew Smith

Image: Illustration of man in a white coat looking at a test tube
Credit: 成人快手.

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28 minutes

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Mon 12 Feb 2018 21:00

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  • Tue 6 Feb 2018 11:00
  • Mon 12 Feb 2018 21:00