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- Leukaemia: “I was diagnosed with CML then found out I was pregnant”
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- Leukaemia: diagnosed four days before Christmas
- Caring for my 40-year-old son with blood cancer
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- HCLv: Matt travels to the other side of the world for his ‘miracle drug’
- Leukaemia: Josh ‘hit cancer on the head’ to get family home
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- Leukaemia: I felt like I was having a bad dream
- Leukaemia: She was only six hours old
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Australia’s blood cancer community has been leaving messages to blood cancer to help mark Blood Cancer Awareness Month.
Get involved by taking a photo of your five-word message, and then sharing on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn using #5words2bloodcancer. Your message will show in this feed if your profile is public (and your message is clean!).
Last updated on September 4th, 2018
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