William Lyne was diagnosed with AML TYPE M7 in Feb 2011 and was treated with Chemotherapy at the Royal Marsden in Sutton until June 2011. Unfortunately he relapsed over Xmas. He then undertook 3 courses of Chemotherapy again at the Marsden Sutton and had a bone marrow transplant in April/ May 2012.Unfortunately 5 months post transplant he relapsed yet again and sadly died in November 2012.

I have decided to take on these challenge(s) to support Professor Mel Greaves work at the Institute of Cancer Research to help try and find some reasons for why William died in such a cruel way and with this perhaps a better treatments for the future

Here is some info on Mel Greaves: 

"Professor Greaves has worked at the ICR since 1984, when he joined to establish the UK’s first Leukaemia Research Fund Centre (for Cell and Molecular Biology). Earlier in his career, Professor Greaves pioneered immunological methods to differentiate between types of leukaemia, which improved understanding of the disease and allowed treatments to be better tailored to patients.

Professor Greaves and his team made a Major discovery at the ICR in the 1990s when studies on identical twins and neonatal blood spots identified mutations that initiated leukaemia before birth. He has been trying to work out what triggers the clinical emergence of leukaemia when children are between two and five years old, and has accumulated evidence that incriminates an abnormal immune response to infection and the cytokine molecule TGF beta."

http://www.icr.ac.uk/our-research/researchers-and-teams/professor-mel-greaves

I know money is tight for everyone at the moment, but if you can spare anything we would very much appreciate your support as we obviously feel we want to give something back to the hospital. Any donation from £1 upwards would be great. We would honestly prefer a £1 donation to no donation, and would in no way be offended and take any donation as a step towards our target.