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$3.6 million for Leukaemia Foundation research projects in 2014 [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
5 March 2014 – Download File
The Leukaemia Foundation has announced $3.6 million in funding for 21 additional national research projects, including three in Queensland, as part of its commitment to a cancer-free future.
The 2014 research allocation, funded through the Foundation’s National Research Program, brings to 71 the
World’s Greatest Shave 2014 registrations are now open! [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
31 January 2014 – Download File
Sign up to shave!
Registrations for the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave are now open. The call is out for brave and generous Queenslanders to shave, colour or wax their hair from 13-16 March and raise funds to support patients living with blood
New Brisbane exercise program could help blood cancer patients’ quality of life [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
29 January 2014 – Download File
The Leukaemia Foundation of Queensland has launched a new exercise program that aims to assist blood cancer patients in coping with treatment side effects and improving their overall well-being.
Fit to Thrive is a 12-week medical exercise program the Leukaemia Foundation of Queensland
Leukaemia Foundation welcomes discovery that lymphoma cells can be killed by disabling the MYC protein [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
8 January 2014 – Download File
The Leukaemia Foundation welcomes the announcement today from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of a promising new strategy for treating cancers, including lymphoma.
The research focused on a cancer-causing protein called MYC, which is present at unusually high levels in up to
Resources sector to brave the shave for blood cancer [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
13 December 2013 – Download File
The call is out for businesses across the Queensland resources sector to sign up for the Leukaemia Foundation of Queensland’s Mining and Energy Challenge, held 13-16 March 2014, to help support patients and families touched by blood cancers.
For the past eight years,
Leukaemia Foundation says early trial results of new drug ABT-199 is good news for people with leukaemia [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
11 December 2013 – Download File
The Leukaemia Foundation of Queensland is encouraged by preliminary findings of a world-first Phase I trial in Melbourne of a new compound that shows great promise for people with the most common form of leukaemia.
In the ABT-199 clinical trial, people with chronic
Cairns woman to help World’s Greatest Shave reach new heights [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
A Cairns woman is looking for some fellow adventurers to scale great heights to the Mount Everest Base Camp to take part in the Leukaemia Foundation’s 2014 World’s Greatest Shave.
Sue Fitcher, owner of Getaway Trekking & Adventures in Cairns, will lead an expedition from the Nepalese town of Lukla
New blood cancer treatment now available through Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
From 1 October 2013, patients with a rare form of the blood cancer, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) will have access to treatment through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Lenalidomide (Revlimid®) will be available for patients who have transfusion-dependent anaemia that is associated with a genetic abnormality know as myelodysplastic syndrome with
Light the Night with hope and support [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
Local residents are invited to attend the Leukaemia Foundation’s Light the Night, an uplifting event being held Wednesday, 16 October at thirteen locations across Queensland, which aims to brighten the lives of blood cancer patients and their families.
The Queensland locations are Brisbane, Bundaberg, Caboolture, Cairns, Gold Coast, Hervey Bay,
World Lymphoma Awareness Day – 15 September 2013 [Publish Date: 02/04/2014]
The incidence of lymphoma ranks as one of the fastest growing cancers in Australia and this year more than 5,000 Australians will be diagnosed with the blood cancer.
World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD) is a global event held on September 15 each year to improve awareness and educate the community