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Addressing blood cancer challenges and improving patient outcomes

This issue of preventable deaths is now being addressed along with other priority actions around national standards of care and consistent access to clinical best practice.

  • Advocacy and policy
  • Research
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Referral to a haematologist takes 2+ months for 13% of blood cancer patients

A timely and accurate blood cancer diagnosis is critical to clinical best practice.

  • Advocacy and policy
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Access to best practice needed to reduce blood cancer mortality

Patients understand that clinical best practice care begins with an accurate and timely diagnosis.

  • Advocacy and policy
  • AML
  • Myeloma
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Access to best practice needed to reduce blood cancer mortality

Expert Series: Associate Professor Nada Hamad on the importance of clinical trials

When talking to her patients, clinical haematologist and researcher Associate Professor Nada Hamad always considers their eligibility for a clinical trial. 

  • Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
  • Interviews with experts
  • Research
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Associate Professor Nada Hamad - clinical haematologist and researcher

Learning to live around our grief

Grief is very much part of our lives - it’s not something separate and it's not just about dying or death, it's around endings, according to psychotherapist, Dr Stephanie Thompson.  

  • Grief and loss
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Dr Stephanie Thompson

Expert Series: the healing power of music therapy

“Music is very much part of our lives” and that's why it's such a useful and effective tool in therapy, according to Tasmanian registered music therapist, Dr Stephanie Thompson. 

  • Grief and loss
  • Interviews with experts
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Dr Stephanie Thompson

Increased melanoma risk in CLL patients means regular skin checks critical

People with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) have a sizeable 600% higher risk of the most dangerous form of skin cancer, melanoma, researchers have found.

  • Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Skin check

Being immunocompromised makes CLL patients one of the most vulnerable patient groups

Clinical haematologist and researcher, Associate Professor Nada Hamad discusses the latest on CLL.

  • Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
  • Treatments and side-effects
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Don had a stem cell transplant at 70 and says “exercise helped”

Don Hayes had an allogeneic stem cell transplant days before his 71st birthday.

  • Myelodysplastic syndromes
  • Research
  • Treatments and side-effects
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PBAC considering selinexor for a third time

For the third time, selinexor (Xpovio®) will be considered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) at its November 2022 meeting for the treatment of relapsed/refractory (R/R) myeloma. 

  • Myeloma
  • Treatments and side-effects
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