Blood cancer is the UK's third-biggest cancer killer.

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It includes leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma, and is the most common cancer among children.

While the UK’s overall cancer survival has risen to the highest level on record, we haven’t seen progress across the board, and for people diagnosed with the deadliest blood cancers, their chances of survival are still just 1 in 3.

Over the past 50 years, five-year survival for breast and prostate cancer has risen from around 50% and 30%, respectively, to nearly 90% for both.

Yet for acute myeloid leukaemia, one of the deadliest blood cancers, five-year........

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