Hear from Prof Miles Prince as he provides an update on the impact of the Coronavirus on the management of your blood cancer. His top tips were: • Get the flu shot it is available now • Keep in contact with your treating doctor • Don’t be scared of going to the hospital for your … Continued
Snowdome Foundation took the opportunity to film Prof Miles Prince AM as he spoke about his advice to blood cancer patients during COVID 19. We hope you find this video useful and reassuring. Please click on the image to hear what Miles had to say.
We are proud to share with you the Snowdome Foundation 2019 Annual Review. The review celebrates 10 years of ‘making hope real’ for Australian blood cancer patients. We hope you are just as proud of our achievements as we are because we truly believe that every donation, every pro bono offer of support and every … Continued
18 months ago Snowdome spoke with Amanda Lindell while she was in the middle of treatment for her chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). CLL generally affects people 20 years older than Amanda and is usually a very slow cancer, smouldering away in the background. However, Amanda was young and her CLL was progressing rapidly. Her haematologist … Continued
The Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) has given a positive recommendation to Kymriah a CAR T-cell therapy to treat refractory or relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), follicular lymphoma (FL) including transformed, and primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL). The treatment would cost an individual up to $500,000 but will now be funded by the government. In … Continued
Professor Ricky Johnstone is the Head of the Gene Regulation Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Head, The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne. He is the recipient of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society-Snowdome Foundation–Leukaemia Foundation Translational Research grant. His mission is to uncover a new therapy to … Continued
In a very short period of time Blood Cancer Research WA, supported by the Snowdome Foundation, has managed to increase the number of blood cancer patients on clinical trials by almost 100 and reduce the waiting time to access a trial from five weeks to five days. However, Assoc Prof Chan Cheah is determined to … Continued
Dr Pilar Dominguez is a senior postdoctoral researcher working with Prof Ricky Johnstone at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Her research is focused on the role that abnormal epigenetics processes play in lymphoma formation with the aim of finding a way to overcome this anomaly. Her research project is funded by the Leukemia & Lymphoma … Continued
It is disappointing to learn that the Medical Services Advisory Committee did not find in favour of funding tisagenlecleucel a chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T-cell) therapy for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The committee felt that the evidence in support of the therapy was not as promising in DLBCL as it was in the … Continued