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Film-maker urges review of treatment for deadly anaemia

A film-maker is calling for an urgent shake-up in treatment for a life-threatening form of a blood condition.

Sufferer Mairi Sutherland, 45, is making a documentary to raise awareness of pernicious anaemia, a disease caused by vitamin B12 deficiency.

The independent director is warning that doctors are failing to diagnose the condition.

Ms Sutherland, from Rickmansworth, suffered from the disease for years but was only diagnosed in 2007. She says she has been left with long-term thyroid damage because of her late diagnosis.

On 26 November she is holding a fundraising evening at the Empire Leicester Square in support of pernicious anaemia patients.

Tonight, MP Madeleine Moon will call in the House of Commons for a review of how pernicious anaemia is diagnosed.

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