326. The Committee also held an informal meeting with Mrs. Rachel Hodgkin and Mr. Peter Newell, who informed the Committee about the present status of the Implementation Handbook on the Convention on the Rights of the Child commissioned by UNICEF.

And bone marrow is actually what we use to save the lives of tens of thousands of patients, most of whom have advanced malignancies like leukemia and lymphoma and some other diseases.

Vaccines protecting against Helicobacter pylori and hepC are in development (although the latter is proving particularly challenging). Even an Epstein Barr virus vaccine, which would protect against some kinds of lymphoma, is achieving promising results.

These cancers include acute lymphoblastic leukaemia acute myelogenous leukaemia chronic lymphocytic leukaemia hairy cell leukaemia non Hodgkin's lymphoma Hodgkin's disease melodysplastic syndrome multiple myeloma retinoblastoma Ewing sarcoma Wilms tumour neuroblastoma sarcoma rhabdomyosarcoma testis tumour and lung cancer.

According to Iran, the study demonstrates that the release of pollutants from the oil well fires, the oil spills and depleted uranium increased carcinogens in the environment, and this led to an increase in cases of leukaemia, lymphoma and carcinoma after 1991.

And really this is the fourth of these molecules to kind of graduate from our little pipeline of drug discovery, two of which a topical drug for lymphoma of the skin, an oral substance for the treatment of multiple myeloma will actually come to the bedside for first clinical trial in July of this year.

The addition of this inhibitor to intensive chemotherapy has dramatically improved the outlook for these children, increasing the rate of three year event free survival from 35 to 80 . The development of targeted new agents is likely to affect outcomes for other subtypes of childhood cancer, including anaplastic large cell lymphoma and other types of leukemias.

Women exposed to higher levels of the pesticide DDT before the age of fourteen have a five times higher chances of developing breast cancer when they reach middle age. Could such compounds play a role in unexplained and growing rates of childhood cancer, testicular cancer, and non Hodgkin s Lymphoma throughout the industrial world? Should we wait to find out?