A mother-of-two from Suffolk says she hopes new research will spare other parents from devastation.
Callan Brett, 33, of Ipswich, lost her son Henry to infant acute myeloid leukaemia in May 2021A mother whose baby son died of a rare form of blood cancer says she hopes new research will spare other families from similar "heartbreak".Diagnosed at five months old, Henry was just 14 months old when he died.
Mrs Brett says a new research project into infant leukaemia at University of Edinburgh meant the "the world" to her and her family. The research, co-funded by Leukaemia UK and Worldwide Cancer Research, aims to uncover kinder and more effective treatments for infant leukaemia - a rare but devastating disease which affects babies under 12 months.Mrs Brett recently met with Prof Ottersbach to learn more about the projectProf Ottersbach says: "The treatment of infant leukaemia has not improved for decades.
"This research will allow us to investigate what makes blood cancer in infants unique, and how we can treat it more efficiently.""The only way I can describe it is total devastation."Later, I felt such guilt as well. If he'd been my first child, I might have worried sooner, but because he was my second - and because he was such a happy baby - I was more relaxed. I just felt so guilty.
"We cannot stand by knowing that more research could spare another family from his type of heartbreak."
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