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
Tag: Treatments and side-effects
Addressing knowledge gaps in immunoglobulin therapy
Dr Khai Li Chai is working to improve the prevention and treatment of infection in blood cancer patients with antibody replacement therapy.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
- Myeloma
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Research
- Treatments and side-effects
Multi-Million Dollar Research Program to fight GVHD
There’s an urgent need for new approaches to better prevent and treat GVHD.
- Research
- Treatments and side-effects
Bruce has found his pot of gold – acalabrutinib
Bruce was the first patient in Adelaide to join an international CLL trial.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
- Treatments and side-effects
Decisions from the March PBAC meeting for CLL/SLL
Acalabrutinib (Calquence®) will be added to the therapy arsenal for CLL and SLL.
- Advocacy and policy
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
- Other blood cancers
- Treatments and side-effects
PBAC reconsidered plitidepsin for myeloma 
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) considered four blood cancer treatments at its March 2020 meeting including a drug for myeloma – plitidepsin (Aplidin®).
- Advocacy and policy
- Myeloma
- Treatments and side-effects
5,000 new stem cell donors by September 2020
More than 600 Australians have a potentially life-saving stem cell transplant each year.
- Treatments and side-effects
PBS listing of blinatumomab extended  
Australians with ALL and minimal residual disease (MRD) can now access blinatumomab on the PBS.
- Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
- Treatments and side-effects
Access to CAR-T therapy will now be available to Lymphoma patients
- Media releases
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Treatments and side-effects
Lisa Christie shares her stem cell transplant experience
Lisa Christie shares her experience of having a stem cell transplant following her diagnosis with AML.
- Acute myeloid leukaemia
- Treatments and side-effects
