Dr Anne Parker
Anne Parker is senior medical editor at Macmillan for information about blood cancers.
About Anne
Job title
Consultant Haematologist and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Address
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Specialism
Blood cancers
Anne's background
Anne Parker is senior medical editor at Macmillan for information about blood (haematological) cancers. She did her medical training at the University of Bristol and then went on to specialise in haematology. She worked as a trainee haematologist at centres in Glasgow, Nottingham, Leicester and Northampton before becoming a Consultant Haematologist in 1999.
She has treated people with all blood cancers but now has a particular interest in bone marrow transplant and infection. She is a member of British Society for Haematology (BSH) and the American Society of Haematology. She is active in research into infection, transplants, and graft versus host disease. She was a member and Chair of the BSH guidelines committee and involved in many of the group’s guidelines.
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Blood cancer
Blood cancer happens when blood cells do not develop properly. The most common blood cancers are leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
Leukaemia
Leukaemia (sometimes spelt as leukemia) is a cancer of the blood cells. If you have leukaemia, your body makes some abnormal blood cells. These leukaemia cells behave differently from healthy blood cells.
Myeloma
Myeloma is a type of blood cancer that develops from abnormal (cancerous) plasma cells. Normal plasma cells are a type of white blood cell that fight infection. They are made in the bone marrow.
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