UpbeatA £1 million (about $1.4 million) gift puts faster genetic answers within reach for children with cancer
At Birmingham Children's Hospital, one of the UK's largest children's cancer centres, a donation of just over £1 million (about $1.4 million) has bought a state-of-the-art DNA sequencing platform for the regional genetics laboratory. The NovaSeq machine will let scientists run large cancer gene panels for an estimated 560 children and young people a year across the West Midlands, Oxfordshire and southern England — identifying the markers that help doctors choose treatments that work better and are less toxic. The gift came from Children with Cancer UK, raised with Kwik-Fit staff, customers and suppliers.
The upbeat factorhundreds of families a year will get clearer answers, faster, about their child's cancer — funded by ordinary people filling collection tins.
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