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Reconciliation Week

We stand with Indigenous Australians to close the gap in health. We know we need to do better for our First Nations people living with blood cancer.

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Other blood cancers
  • Support services
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Artwork created by Reconciliation Australia to mark Reconciliation Week

Part Three: “If your daughter could save your life…would you ask her?”

In her own words, Rowena McLean shares her harrowing four-and-a-half-year blood cancer journey in the lead up to World Blood Cancer Day, 28 May 2021.

  • Acute myeloid leukaemia
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Part Two: Needing some magic from ‘Mr Potter’  

In her own words, Rowena McLean shares her harrowing four-and-a-half-year blood cancer journey in the lead up to World Blood Cancer Day, 28 May 2021.

  • Acute myeloid leukaemia
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Childhood blood cancer through a mother’s eyes

This Mother’s Day, and every day, we recognise the incredible mothers and mother-figures within our community. One of these mums is Andrea Houston whose four-year-old daughter, Emily, is currently battling an aggressive blood cancer.

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
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Part One: Boxing Day, bloody noses and a burst appendix

  • Acute myeloid leukaemia
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Faye’s myeloma journey: “Cancer? What cancer?”

To mark Myeloma Awareness Month, Faye Johnsen shares her inspiring approach to living with the incurable blood cancer.

  • Myeloma
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Faye Johnsen

Janice has “been just so lucky” over the 12 years she’s had myeloma

Janice says she "wouldn't be here" had she been diagnosed two years earlier.

  • Myeloma
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Jan Watt at her 50th

Identifying high-risk smouldering myeloma to improve patient outcomes

Dr Melissa Cantley hopes that those who have this pre-canerous condition will be able to be tested to understand their risk of developing myeloma.

  • Myeloma
  • Research
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Dr Melissa Cantley in the lab

PBAC update on two myeloma drugs

These two myeloma drugs were not recommended for listing on the PBS.

  • Myeloma
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Elotuzumab

Baby Elowen conquers blood cancer with super strength

Before even reaching her first birthday, Elowen Boston has faced a greater challenge than many of us will in our lifetime - a life-threatening blood cancer diagnosis.

  • Acute myeloid leukaemia
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