Just three days after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), the wife of Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas tragically died. Gemma Thomas was one of more than 3,000 people diagnosed with AML in the UK in the last year.
AML is the commonest aggressive adult human blood cancer. Despite advances in our understanding of the disease, we need to do more research to increase the number of patients who are cured.
Read the full article on The Conversation website, written by Connor Sweeney and Catherine Garnett, Radcliffe Department of Medicine.
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