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Nineteen-year-old Ben was at the cusp of a new life \u2013 he was a month away from joining the National University of Singapore (NUS) \u2013 when he was struck by shattering news: he had acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL), a blood cancer that usually occurs in children and rarely in adults. Overnight, Ben, who had been looking forward to the challenges of student life, was facing far graver challenges. \u201cIt was very upsetting. I had no idea if I could go back to a normal life,\u201d Ben recalls. To add on to his worries, the financial burden of seeking the complex treatment he needed was too high for his parents, who were both teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, help was at hand. Ben\u2019s plight was brought to the attention of Lee Foundation, which funded his treatment by Associate Professor Allen Yeoh, a paediatric cancer specialist and key paediatric cancer researcher at NUS Medicine. A\/Prof Yeoh, who is one of the brains behind the NUH\u2019s 85-percent cure rate for childhood leukaemia, took Ben on as his first adult patient in his leukemia research trials. NUH is the principal teaching hospital of NUS Medicine and A\/Prof Yeoh is Senior Consultant at University Children\u2019s Medical Institute\u2019s Division of Paediatric Haematology-Oncology at the NUH.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben eventually beat the odds \u2013 he graduated from NUS\u2019 School of Design and Environment, and became one of A\/Prof Yeoh\u2019s and his team\u2019s many success stories.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\/Prof Yeoh, the\u00a0Viva-Goh Foundation Associate Professor<\/strong>, attributes his department\u2019s success to a great extent to gifts from foundations such as the Lee Foundation, Children\u2019s Cancer Foundation , the Goh Foundation and Viva Foundation for children with cancer, whose seed funding allowed him to, as he says, \u201ccatch the winds\u201d of progress in biomedical research in Singapore. Philanthropic funding such as these enabled him to build infrastructure and manpower, which is crucial to monitoring patients over the years and building data for his research.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\/Prof Yeoh and NUS Medicine have long been at the vanguard of paediatric leukaemia research and discovery. His mentor, Prof Quah Thuan Chong, Department of Paediatrics, NUS Medicine, was among the first in Asia to replace the traditional routine radiation therapy to the brain and testes, which affected children\u2019s IQ and left males sterile, with high doses of chemotherapy. The cure rate jumped from 50 to 75 percent in trials that ran from 1988 to 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n

A\/Prof Yeoh and his team continue to charge ahead with their pioneering work and are now exploring one of the most promising and exciting new treatments for cancer \u2013 immunotherapy. Unlike chemotherapy, it involves harnessing the power of the body\u2019s immune system to attack cancer cells. \u00a0A key member of his team is Prof Dario Campana, described by Forbes magazine as a \u201creal thought leader in the field of cancer cell therapies\u201d. Prof Dario, who holds the prestigious title of NMRC STaR Investigator, and is also the holder of the\u00a0Mrs. Lee Kong Chian Chair in Advanced Cellular Therapy<\/strong>, has already developed at least 2 landmark cellular-based cancer therapies that have proven useful clinically.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is with the help of dedicated scientists like Profs Yeoh and Campana and the generosity of donors like the Lee Foundation, the Goh Foundation, the Children\u2019s Cancer Foundation and the Viva Foundation for children with cancer that, as with the story of Ben, those of many other cancer-stricken children, continue to have the same happy endings to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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