September is blood cancer awareness month and this year we are asking you to get involved.  The rates of blood cancer diagnosis and mortality are increasing year on year and Snowdome needs your help to find better treatments for this indiscriminate disease. We are asking you to kiss a vice goodbye for the month of … Continued

Introducing “The Bloody Good Red” wine fundraising project. This exciting project is a collaboration between the Snowdome Foundation, Calneggia Family Vineyards and Naked Wines Australia. Mike and Sally Calneggia, own Calneggia Family Vineyards in Margaret River, Western Australia. Sadly, they lost Mike’s father Jim to Multiple Myeloma and since that time the Calneggia Family has … Continued

Fifteen years ago, the father of fashion designer, Lisa Gorman was diagnosed with two forms of blood cancer – lymphoma and leukaemia. As Lisa’s father began treatment, it became evident that more funding was required for research to uncover new treatments and better ways to manage the condition. It was during this period that Lisa … Continued

Dinner of Hope 2021 Clinical trials are a pathway to hope for blood cancer patients.  Trials provide access to next generation treatments when everything else has failed your body. However, clinical trials require human infrastructure that doesn’t exist in the ‘normal’ hospital setting.  A clinical research fellow is required to identify trials that meet individual … Continued

Research into the treatment, known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR T-cell), shows it is more effective than current cancer treatments, but effectiveness does not imply value as far as health budgets are concerned. Australian and US blood cancer specialists reviewed the current measures of cost effectiveness and identified multiple strategies that could be … Continued