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Adelaide man Graham Lewis had two stem-cell transplants and was left with severe graft-versus-host disease. He believes the existence of OCPs would have greatly improved his quality of life.
Ten months after his diagnosis and having failed standard treatment, George Yiannakis is the first of potentially 12 Australians to go on the international MM24 clinical trial for AL amyloidosis.
We spoke to Dr Sidiqi about his specialising field of amyloidosis.
Daratumumab (Darzalex®) could be the first ever therapy to be approved in Australia for AL amyloidosis.
Cast your mind back to 2019, and life pre-COVID. For 56-year-old Peter D'Onghia, that meant a relentless travel schedule with his job as an academic and medical journal publisher – something that led to a delay in following up on blood test results that were, as he puts it, "a little bit odd".
When Debbie McFarlane was diagnosed with the myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), polycythaemia vera (PV) in 2013, she didn’t realise it was a form of blood cancer.