CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA, 51 Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JQ Registered Charity No. 298405 Tel: 020 7404 0808 Fax: 020 7404 3666 email:
[email protected] websites: www.leukaemia.org www.runleukaemia.org www.challengeleukaemia.org This Annual Report has been printed and kindly donated by TOPS Design & Print (01708) 522117 Paul’s and Jean’s first school photographs Annual Report & Accounts 2004 Fighting Britain’s biggest child killer disease Fighting Britain’s biggest child killer disease CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA Registered Charity No. 298405. Inaugurated in 1988 by Diana, Princess of Wales in memory of Jean and Paul O’Gorman Registered Charity No. 298405. Inaugurated in 1988 by Diana, Princess of Wales in memory of Jean and Paul O’Gorman Index Foreword by the Chairman PAGE Foreword by the Chairman 3 Charitable expenditure exceeded £10 million for the Information about the Charity 4 first time in 2004 How we began 5 What is leukaemia? 6 £6.5m Grants to third parties First international conference on the causes and prevention of childhood leukaemia 8 £3.8m Developing young talent in leukaemia research 10 £3.1m Campaigns, projects and Focus on research: 12 programmes Radiation and childhood leukaemia 12 £2.0m Stratification of chemotherapy based on levels of minimal residual disease 14 £4.1m £4.4m £4.4m Understanding infant leukaemia 15 £2.6m Paul O’Gorman centres of excellence in childhood leukaemia research 16 2001 (£4.6m) 2002 (£7.2m) 2003 (£8.2m) 2004 (£10.9m) Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London 16 2004 has been a year of growth extent of the problem of The continued growth in our Northern Institute for Cancer Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne 16 and modernisation for childhood leukaemia.