• SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    “Those worst affected are those researching leukaemia, they have gathered samples from patients over as much as 30 years,” he added.

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      9 months ago

      Fucking tragic, especially since I imagine many of the patients have died.

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      I interned with a hematologist who was incredibly excited to show me a slide of hairy cell leukemia, the one case he’d seen in his career (like 20 years by then). That was just a microscope slide, I can’t begin to imagine how bad the loss of research samples would be on someone.