Leukaemia Foundation invests almost $3m in innovative AML research
Seven research projects that are part of the National Research Program focus on better understanding and treating acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).
- Acute myeloid leukaemia
- Research
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Carrie – our new Chair – knows blood cancer from experience
Carrie Hillyard was "in the middle of absolutely nowhere" when she was struck with symptoms of blood cancer.
- Acute myeloid leukaemia
Five-year prognosis unacceptable to CML warrior Rona
Rona Wall was diagnosed with CML in January 2002 after noticing that a large black bruise on her arm hadn’t healed after six weeks.
- Chronic myeloid leukaemia
Understanding MDS and the biological processes driving treatment response
Dr Steven Lane hopes to understand how myelodysplasia (MDS) forms from normal cells.
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Research
What’s CAR T-cell therapy?
Dr Bruce Levine explains how it works and why.
- Research
- Treatments and side-effects
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- Our supporters
Tereena goes to her “happy place” when she’s in pain or discomfort
Meet Tereena Cocks, who has practised meditation and visualisation almost as long as she’s been living with blood cancer – nearly half her life.
- Lifestyle and living well
- Myeloproliferative neoplasms
Jeanette takes nothing for granted
- Myeloma
“Every two weeks I need two bags of blood”
Amber Walker has relied on fortnightly blood transfusions since being told she had blood cancer for the second time.
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
Leukaemia Foundation partners with new fitness app that turns exercise into a game
- Our supporters
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