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Bollywood is mourning its second loss in as many days after the death of leading Indian actor Rishi Kapoor at the age of 67.Kapoor, part of one of Bollywood's most famous families, was admitted to hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday and died on Thursday. He had returned to India last September after undergoing treatment for leukaemia in the US for almost a year, and was admitted to hospital twice in February. Image: Kapoor (L) and Amitabh Bachchan promoting a film in 2018 Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan tweeted: "Rishi Kapoor gone….Just passed away… I am destroyed."Kapoor's father Raj and grandfather Prithviraj were doyens of Bollywood, the vast Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai. ...

A cutting-edge personalised treatment for a form of childhood leukaemia is to be made available on the NHS in the first deal of its kind in Europe. NHS England has negotiated a contract with pharmaceutical manufacturer Novartis for a therapy that reprogrammes a patient's immune system to attack cancer cells.The treatment, known as CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor T-cell) therapy, will be available to children and young people under the age of 25 who have B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.The therapy, which is specifically developed for each patient and is currently only available in Europe in clinical trials, may be available within weeks and could help around 20 children a year.In CAR-T therapy, cells are removed from the patient's blood and reprogrammed into geneticall...

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Bollywood icon Rishi Kapoor dies from leukaemia aged 67

NHS nets 'game-changing' leukaemia treatment