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• Dangoor Family’s Exilarch’s Foundation gift to speed up pioneering cancer care at UCLH

  UCLH Charity is delighted to announce that the Dangoor Family’s Exilarch’s Foundation has pledged a £1.2m gift to support the next phase of the development of the CAR T programme at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). The CAR T Speed Release Project aims to reduce the time between extracting patient’s stem cells and injecting re-engineered CAR T cells back into patients with cancer to fight cancer cells.

• Interventions for prostate cancer patients on active surveillance: what our patients should know

  A major new review published in BJU International explores additional treatments and lifestyle measures for men with early prostate cancer who are managed with active surveillance, as well as monitoring tools that may help guide care.

• Red Cell Patient Information

  Patient information for Red Cell Network patients

• Patient educational materials

  Education and training videos for Red Cell Network patients

• Publications and Reading Material

  The Sickle Cell Society (SCS) and the UK Thalassaemia Society (UKTS) have worked in partnership with the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme to engage with communities less likely to access health information through usual NHS channels. The societies provide feedback from people that share the same population background or have experience of the condition and to feed into the programme updates and improvements. 

• Second generation CAR T-cell therapy trialled in patients

  A new CAR T-cell therapy developed by scientists at UCL has fewer ‘toxic’ side-effects and is more durable, targeting and killing cancer cells for longer, concludes a Phase 1 clinical trial of patients at UCLH.

• Immunotherapy significantly increases the number of patients free from bowel cancer

  An immunotherapy drug given before surgery instead of chemotherapy meant that significantly more patients with a certain genetic profile were cancer free after surgery, according to clinical trial results presented by researchers at UCL and UCLH.

• Women’s mental agility is better during menstruation

  Participants reacted quicker and made fewer errors during menstruation, despite believing their performance would be worse, according to new research from UCL and the Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health (ISEH).

• Patient story - Sam Ahern

  When Sam Ahern was born 24 years ago, she was the smallest baby our neonatal unit had ever looked after. Now an accomplished musician and fine art student, she has gone back to meet the team that helped her win her fight for life.

• Aftercare Guidance Following an Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Implant

  Information for patients (or anyone who is involved in their care) who have undergone implantation of an Intrathecal Baclofen Pump under the care of the team at this hospital.