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Saturday 14 April

Morning session

9.00 am – 10.30 am   Registration and exhibition, Tower Suite
10.30 am – 10.40 am Welcome, Richard Delderfield, Vice Chairman
10.40 am – 10.50 am How we are beating blood cancer, Professor Chris Bunce, Research Director
10.50 am – 11.00 am My experience with myeloma, Malcolm Lane, myeloma patient
11.00 am – 11.30 am Improving quality of life for patients with myeloma, Dr Andrew Chantry, Senior Lecturer in Haematology and Consultant Haematologist, University of Sheffield
11.30 am – 11.35 am Understanding my diagnosis, Paul Acres, leukaemia patient and marathon runner visits Dr Andrew Rawstron’s diagnostics lab in Leeds
11.35 am – 12.00 pm Diagnosing and monitoring patients with blood cancer Dr Andrew Rawstron Consultant Clinical Scientist, Haematological Malignancy Diagnostics Service (HMDS), Leeds

Lunch

12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Lunch, Tower Suite
1.00 pm – 1.30 pm Tea and Coffee, Tower Suite Exhibition Area

Afternoon
1.30 pm – 1.35 pm Welcome back, Richard Delderfield, Vice Chairman
1.35 pm – 1.50 pm London to Lisbon Cycling Challenge, Charlie Metcalfe, Trustee introduces video of son Louis, who cycled from London to Lisbon with school friends last summer
1.50 pm – 2.20 pm Targeted treatments for blood cancer patients, Professor Mark Cragg, Chair in Experimental Cancer Biology, University of Southampton
2.20 pm – 2.45 pm Trial Acceleration Programme (TAP), Professor Chris Bunce, Research Director & Geoff Thomas, TAP Ambassador
2.45 pm – 3.00 pm Cathy Gilman, Chief Executive interviews Joe Smale, leukaemia patient and closes Conference 2012
3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Tea, coffee and exhibition, Tower Suite Exhibition

Exhibition area:

- Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP)
Learn about our ground-breaking new initiative that links treatment
centres around the UK to ensure that new blood cancer treatments
reach patients, faster.

- Tea and Tweets
Come and pop along for a cup of tea and an introduction to Twitter,
blogging and Facebook! The internet is a great way to meet other
blood cancer patients and promote events. Stop by for a sit down and
a friendly run-through of what’s what with our team.

- Beating blood cancers – a destination
We’ve mapped out our journey to beat blood cancers, celebrating all
that we’ve achieved in the past, what we are currently doing and our
vision for how we will beat blood cancer.

- Unstoppable fundraising challenge
Our sports fundraisers are ‘Unstoppable’ – they will not stop until we
have beaten blood cancer. Today our cyclists will be making sure the
wheels of the exercise bike don’t stop by cycling 52 miles, which is
the same as the Challenge route of the London Bikeathon. Come along
and say hello to our Unstoppable cyclists and learn more about our
sports team.

- Haematological Malignancy Research Network (HMRN)
Learn about our state-of-the-art cancer registry created to tackle vital
questions about the causes and development of blood cancers, which
is underpinning the development of new treatments, improvements in
diagnosis and vital health care initiatives.