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
Category: Stories
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
Be aware of charity scams
Read these tips from Scamwatch on how to identify charity scammers.
- 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
Cancer-related fatigue – what it is, how it can affect you and how to manage it
Cancer-related fatigue is a side-effect that has an enormous impact on quality of life.
- Lifestyle and living well
- Treatments and side-effects
“Thank you for bringing us together”
Our supporters help people going through blood cancer to make connections.
- Other blood cancers
- “Live life to the fullest”: Josh Gourlay opens up about returning to work and new beginnings after blood cancer
- Advocacy news – July 2024
- Talking Blood Cancer: Estate planning and medical directives
- Running for a Cause: Cal Gates’ Journey from Newcastle to Sydney on foot in one weekend
- World Blood Cancer Day 2024