Drive to get more people to sign up for cancer trials

When Alex Hosford was told he had multiple myeloma almost two years ago, he did not know what it was.

Drive to get more people to sign up for cancer trials

Days after Alex’s diagnosis, consultant haematologist at Cork University Hospital Mary Cahill asked if he would take part in a clinical trial and he readily agreed.

Before the week was over, Alex, his wife Eleanor and four grown children knew a lot more about multiple myeloma — a cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow.

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