Navigating childhood blood cancer during a pandemic
Archer spent nine months, hundreds of kilometres from home and across state borders, undergoing life-saving blood cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Archer spent nine months, hundreds of kilometres from home and across state borders, undergoing life-saving blood cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
To mark September’s Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we’re sharing the inspiring stories of little warriors like Daisy, who was diagnosed with an aggressive blood cancer at just four months old.
Gavin thought leukaemia was only a children’s cancer until the day his shock diagnosis completely changed his family forever.
This year’s will be Sarah’s second Mother’s Day – but the first she’ll be celebrating cancer free.
Gavin received a transplant to treat his ALL from an unrelated-matched donor.
Ari’s family told us about the impact the virus has on their lives.
Better understanding and treating myeloma is the focus of eight research projects that are part of the Leukaemia Foundation’s National Research Program.
Australians with ALL and minimal residual disease (MRD) can now access blinatumomab on the PBS.
“A few days before I was diagnosed, I went home after work and was pretty much unable to get upstairs without feeling really tired."