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An excruciatingly long wait for diagnosis has had to be endured

A new scientific technique could be developed, and the trauma of one brain tumour sufferer now at Cardiff University (CU), may be fundamental.

Léo Wurpillot was afflicted by a brain tumour at just 10 years of age, but had to endure an agonising three month wait for diagnosis, after a piece of the growth was surgically removed and tested for malignancy.

He is now a Biomedical Student at CU, yet the experience has stayed with him – today however senior scientists might have found a method to test brain tumour samples in hours not months.

Researchers have found a new technique

Researchers at Nottingham University (NU) and the local hospital have developed ultra fast sequencing which could allow rapid diagnosis.

The team have been examining a technology called nanopore sequencing, looking at molecules of DNA and RNA which are passed through tiny holes engineered into a membrane.

Researchers are promoting better health

The NU Medical School proclaims: “Our mission is to improve people’s health and wellbeing by outstanding education and research.

“We strive for excellence in all we do. We assume a leadership role in issues of importance to the communities of Nottingham, the UK, and across the globe.”

The experience of a Cardiff medical school undergraduate may be key

As people like Mr Wurpilllot know only too well…

 

The memories of our Editor, Welshman Phil Parry’s, remarkable decades long award-winning career in journalism (when scientific advances which helped patients were often reported) as he was gripped by the rare and incurable neurological disabling condition Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), have been released in a major book ‘A GOOD STORY’ (including The Cardiff Newsagent Three case). Order the book now!

‘BUY MY BOOK!’

Regrettably publication of another book, however, was refused, because it was to have included names.

Tomorrow – in an extraordinary legal case, the Vatican stands accused of subjecting a businessman to “incoherent” allegations over a property deal, which highlights an earlier controversy about an apology having to be issued after the Pope supposedly made homophobic comments, and how for our Editor, Welshman Phil Parry, saying sorry properly is almost NEVER done.