A mum has told how a pioneering new clinical trial after world-first leukaemia research in Manchester saved her eight-year-old daughter's life.
The research at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital has shown dramatic results for treating children with high-risk leukaemia - a type of blood cancer - who previously had no hope of recovery after all other treatment options had failed, medics revealed today.
And the success of the innovative treatment is all down to the help of newborn babies. Cord blood cells taken from the placenta, along with a series of white blood cell transfusions, provides 'the most effective treatment ever trialled', the researchers said.
