NOW ONLINE (click HERE) – to learn more about Snowdome, what we do and the urgent need for funds to accelerate treatments for blood cancers, our ‘Great Shake-Up’ event/program is now available to view online. Please click HERE. We hope you find it enjoyable and welcome any feedback. Also, please don’t hesitate to contact us if … Continued
My youngest brother was six when we first heard that our Mum had Hodgkin’s lymphoma. I was about to sit my final year 12 exams, and my two other siblings were in the midst of middle school life. No one can prepare a family for the roller-coaster ride you all take when a parent gets … Continued
My drive for supporting blood cancer started in November 1998, three weeks after my 27th birthday. One evening at 8.30pm my obstetrician called and wanted to see me due to an abnormal blood test from earlier that day. I was 15 weeks pregnant with our first child. I had been living in Auckland for nearly … Continued
How lucky are we in our lives when the word ‘cancer’ is just something we hear about in the media and talk about casually when we are discussing a friend or their family’s circumstance. We throw the word around with such abandon, and a sympathetic but indeed so cavalier an attitude, ‘Oh, I am very … Continued
My dearest Mother Virginia: In September 2009, our dearest mother discovered two hot, red lumps on her leg and showed them to us. We took her to the local doctor thinking that it was nothing major. She had some blood tests and the family was urgently asked to attend an appointment at Cabrini to meet … Continued
Snowdome Ambassador Andrew Cody is swapping his ‘Great Shake-Up’ 2014 boardroom for a boat. Four years ago Andrew was diagnosed with myelofibrosis (a cousin disease of myeloid leukaemia) but he was fortunate to be able to access a trial drug and has not looked back since. He has a passion for Snowdome and its research … Continued
The Snowdome Foundation sends heartfelt well wishes to Australian actress Tessa James who has revealed she has Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a form of blood cancer. Tessa, aged 23, has returned from the U.S. to Australia to commence treatment. Unlike other cancers, routine screening and public health awareness campaigns won’t reduce anyone’s risk of developing a blood cancer. Sadly, … Continued
Well known and much loved Australian musician, John Farnham, has lent his support to the ‘Great Shake-Up‘ with a personal video message. Blood cancers are close to John’s heart, having lost his friend and fellow musician Jim Keays to multiple myeloma in recent months. Having lived with the disease for seven years, Jim passed away aged … Continued
September 18 approaches and it will be three years since my sister Andrea was diagnosed with Diffuse Large B cell lymphoma (stage 4). Andrea was 42 at the time, a partner, a mother of two boys, a daughter, sister, aunty, cousin and friend to many. This was not part of her story or ours but … Continued