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Child cancer survivor fights for better treatment
Vicky Forster beat leukaemia as a child. Now she works as a scientist, trying to change the lives of children with the same disease.
Some of her team's most recent work led to the publication of a clinical alert, advising doctors that a combination of drugs sometimes used to treat leukaemia may have a toxic effect.
(Image: Vicky Forster as a child. Credit: Vicky Forster)
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