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Diseases we support

The Leukaemia Foundation supports people and their loved ones impacted by blood cancers and disorders.

There are over 120 types of blood cancer or disorders and we have compiled a list of the most commonly diagnosed that we support. If your diagnosis is not on this list, please contact us on 1800 620 420 or [email protected] to see how we can help you.


Amyloidosis

  • AA amyloidosis
  • AApoA1 amyloidosis
  • AGel amyloidosis
  • AL amyloidosis
  • ALys amyloidosis
  • ATTR amyloidosis
  • Afib amyloidosis
  • hATTR amyloidosis with polyneuropathy

Blood disorders

  • Aplastic anaemia (AA)
  • Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD)
  • Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH)
  • Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
  • POEMS (Polyneuropathy, Organomegaly, Endocrinopathy, Monoclonal protein and Skin changes) syndrome
  • Castleman disease (CD)

Leukaemia

  • Acute basophilic leukaemia
  • Acute erythroid leukaemia
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) – B-cell and T-cell
  • Acute megakaryoblastic leukaemia
  • Acute monocytic leukaemia
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia with defining genetic abnormalities
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia with maturation
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia without maturation
  • Acute myeloid leukaemia with minimal differentiation
  • Acute myelomonocytic leukaemia (AMML)
  • Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APML)
  • Biphenotypic leukaemia
  • Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)
  • Hairy cell leukaemia
  • Large granular lymphocyte leukaemia
  • Myeloid sarcoma (localised leukaemia)
  • Prolymphocytic leukaemia (B-cell and T-cell)

Lymphoma (60+ sub-types, most common below)

Hodgkin lymphoma

  • Classical Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Lymphocyte depleted Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Lymphocyte rich Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Nodular sclerosing Hodgkin lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

  • ALK-positive large B-cell lymphoma
  • Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL)
  • Adult T-cell lymphoma/leukaemia
  • B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma
  • Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL)
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL)
  • Cutaneous B-cell lymphoma (CBCL)
  • Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) – Sezary syndrome, Mycosis fungoides, subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma
  • Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)
  • EBV-positive DLBCL
  • High grade B-cell lymphoma (previously double hit lymphoma)
  • Follicular lymphoma (FL)
  • Grey zone lymphoma (GZL)
  • Hairy cell leukaemia
  • T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma
  • T-cell/histocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma
  • Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)
  • Marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) including MALT, Nodal and Splenic
  • Nodular Lymphocyte Predominant B-cell Lymphoma
  • Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL)
  • Peripheral T-cell lymphoma – not otherwise specified
  • Primary Mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL)
  • Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL)
  • Richter’s syndrome
  • Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia (WM)

Myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS) – previously myelodysplastic syndromes

  • Childhood MDS with increased blasts (cMDS-IB)
  • Childhood MDS with low blasts (cMDS-LB)
  • MDS with low blasts and isolated 5q deletion (MDS-5q)
  • MDS with low blasts and SF3B1 mutation (MDS-SF3B1)
  • MDS with biallelic TP53 inactivation (MDS-biTP53)
  • MDS with low blasts (MDS-LB)
  • MDS, hypoplastic (MDS-h)
  • MDS with increased blasts (MDS-IB1)
  • MDS with increased blasts (MDS-IB2)
  • MDS with fibrosis
  • VEXUS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) MDS

Myeloma

  • Extramedullary plasmacytoma
  • IgG (kappa or lambda) myeloma
  • IgA (kappa or lambda) myeloma
  • IgD (kappa or lambda) myeloma
  • IgE (kappa or lambda) myeloma
  • IgM myeloma
  • Light chain myeloma
  • Monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS)
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Non-secretory myeloma
  • Osteosclerotic myeloma
  • Solitary plasmacytoma
  • Smoldering myeloma

Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN)

  • Chronic eosinophilic leukaemia (CEL)
  • Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)
  • Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMM
  • Chronic neutrophilic leukaemia (CNL)
  • Essential thrombocythaemia (ET)
  • Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia (JMML)
  • MDS/MPN with neutrophilia
  • MDS/MPN with SF3B1 mutation and thrombocytosis
  • MDS/MPN, not otherwise specified
  • Post ET myelofibrosis
  • Polycythaemia vera (PV)
  • Post PV myelofibrosis
  • Primary myelofibrosis (PMF)
  • Systemic mastocytosis (SM)
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    Diseases the Leukaemia Foundation supports

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