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Blood cancer doesn’t stop: Ari’s story

Ari’s family told us about the impact the virus has on their lives.

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
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Baczynski Family at a Leukaemia Foundation accommodation unit

Leukaemia Foundation invests $2.6m+ in innovative myeloma research

Better understanding and treating myeloma is the focus of eight research projects that are part of the Leukaemia Foundation’s National Research Program.

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia
  • Myeloma
  • Research
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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
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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
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Jack Jacobsen

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
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Understanding immune system behaviour in blood cancers

Making a difference to the lives of her patients is why Dr Wei Jiang gets up each morning. 

  • Other blood cancers
  • Research
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Dr Wei Jiang

Meet our new chairman, Dr Carrie Hillyard

Meet the Leukaemia Foundation's new Chairman, Carrie Hillyard.

  • Media releases
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Leukaemia Foundation Chairman Carrie Hillyard

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

  • Media releases
  • Our supporters
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Brett’s well and back living in the moment

“A few days before I was diagnosed, I went home after work and was pretty much unable to get upstairs without feeling really tired."

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
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Leukaemia Foundation helps fund more priority driven research

  • Media releases
  • Myeloma
  • Research
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