Tony Chapman died of lymphoblastic leukaemia cancer in November 2002, aged 14, after a 10-year health battle.

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Describes Emil Freireich's research into drugs to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in the nineteen-fifties and sixties.

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Extra-Life was founded in the name of Victoria Enmon in 2007, a gamer with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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The patients, who ranged in age from 23 to 66, were diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, and had previously relapsed after standard chemotherapy.

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Researchers writing in the medical journal The Lancet have found that toddlers are 70% more likely to develop acute lymphoblastic leukaemia than they were 20 years ago.

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However, none of the six groupings - which included acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, brain tumours and Hodgkin's disease - showed an increasing trend between levels of radiation and rate of disease.

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"Langerhans cell sarcoma is extremely rare, with only 40-50 reported cases in the literature, and only one other case of it arising from his particular type of leukaemia (acute lymphoblastic), " the spokesperson said.

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In another path-breaking example, consider the case of Dr. Lucas Wartman, a young physician who developed adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a disease that is usually rapidly fatal, and for which there is no effective treatment.

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