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Child with leukaemiaTreatment for leukaemia

Children diagnosed with childhood leukaemia now have an eight out of ten chance of survival because of better treatments.

Leukaemia and other blood cancers

 

 

 

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Boy using asthma inhalerAsthma inhalers

Worldwide, 330 million people suffer from asthma. One in every ten children in the UK have asthma and a total of 5.2 million in people in the UK are currently receiving treatment.

 Asthma inhalers

 

 

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diabetic teenager injecting insulin

Insulin for diabetes

Millions of people with diabetes are alive and well as a result of the discovery of insulin in dogs. There are over 2.5 million people with diabetes in the UK.

 Insulin for diabetes 

 

 

 

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Breast cancer thermograph Breast cancer medicines

 

Four in five women diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK will survive for more than five years thanks to treatments such as tamoxifen and Herceptin.

Breast cancer treatment

 

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Polio patient in VietnamPolio vaccine

 

The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives. The WHO vaccination programme to eradicate polio worldwide resulted in a 99% fall in cases by 2000.

Polio vaccine 

 

 

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Surgery for Parkinson’s Disease

One in 500 people, about 120,000, in the UK has Parkinson's disease. To date, brain surgery has transformed the lives of 40,000 patients.

Watch our video clip of a patient demonstrating the benefits.

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