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Patients in England with some cancers will be offered a new test, which aims to tailor treatments to their genetics and avoid toxic side-effects. The blood test detects whether they are genetically prone to experiencing the more serious effects of chemotherapy drugs.

Charity workers are battling the emerging perfect storm of Brexit, Covid-19 travel restrictions and border closures to ensure lifesaving stem cells can be delivered to blood cancer patients who desperately need them to survive.

Amongst cancelled Christmas plans and travel chaos, blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan are working round the clock to ensure stem cells, donated by people who signed up to save a life, can still be transported to patients waiting for a transplant.

The European Commission has given approval for a new Car-T therapy for adult patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma. Treatment options for people with this aggressive blood cancer are limited, and Anthony Nolan welcomes this development which will benefit patients. 

Antonio Pagliuca, Chief Medical and Scientific Adviser at Anthony Nolan and Professor of Stem Cell Transplantation at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, says: 

Today, Monday 14 December, HSJ announced the nominees for their 2021 Partnership Awards, with Anthony Nolan’s Patient Services team making the being shortlisted in the category of Best Not for Profit Working in Partnership with the NHS for our project ‘Beyond a stem cell transplant: ensuring long term support is available for patients’.

Sean donating stem cells

A selfless teenager has travelled from Liverpool to London during the second national Covid 19 (coronavirus) lockdown, to donate stem cells to a stranger in desperate need of a potentially life-saving stem cell transplant.

Following news that NHS frontline staff are no longer being considered a high priority when the first coronavirus vaccines begin their distribution over the next few weeks Professor Antonio Pagliuca, Chief Scientific Adviser at Anthony Nolan says: ‘The timely care of stem cell transplant patients is being put at risk with this decision and it must be reviewed.

Following news today (Wednesday 2 December) that the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK, Henny Braund, Chief Executive of Anthony Nolan says:

'Today’s announcement paints an extremely positive picture for stem cell transplant patients for whom 2020 has meant many months shielding and time away from their families, work and education.

Charity Chief Digital & Information Officer, Danny Attias has won a major accolade at the CIO 100 2020, it was revealed last night.  Danny, who is CDIO of blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan topped the CIO 100 which recognises the most transformational and disruptive CIOs in and from the UK. The annual event celebrates technology and business leaders driving change at their organisations through teams.

‘It’s the single most upsetting, terrifying and heart-breaking experience we as parents have ever been through’

Ex On The Beach star and ex footballer Ashley Cain, and his girlfriend Safiyya, are calling for more people to sign up as potential stem cell donors, with blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan. His 12-week-old daughter was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of leukaemia at just eight-weeks-old and will now need a stem cell transplant, from a stranger, if she is to be cured.

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the dulcet tones of the M&S Christmas Food campaign reverberating around your living room. And this year is more magical than most, as Anthony Nolan’s beloved patron (who needs no introduction but is namely the inimitable Olivia Colman), voices the first of a series of charity Christmas ads for the M&S Food brand.