Victoria has been in lockdown for 3 weeks and new COVID 19 cases don’t seem to be slowing. What does all this mean to us as a community and those of us living with a blood cancer?
Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been approved in Australia for forms of leukaemia and lymphoma for a while now, but we are still awaiting adequate evidence that CAR-T cell therapy works effectively in myeloma. CAR-T cell therapy genetically modifies T-cells to hunt out and find a protein (CD19) that is found on … Continued
Dr Kylee Maclachlan moved her career and her family to New York City in August last year to help improve outcomes for Australian myeloma patients. Kylee is aiming to establish an ongoing collaboration between the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre to share clinical trials, treatment protocols and expert knowledge. … Continued
The Australian featured an exclusive story on the remarkable insights provided by genomic testing. To quote Dr Piers Blombery, Head of the Molecular Haematology Laboratory at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,“Every cancer is different and genomics testing such as the ctDNA panel gives clinicians more details about what drives the individual patient’s tumour cells; it … Continued
We have been living with the COVID 19 pandemic for 6 months now. Our knowledge about the virus and who is most at risk has grown dramatically. Prof Miles Prince shares with us key learnings, what your risks are as a blood cancer patient and how to prepare should someone you live with get diagnosed. … Continued
In the lead up World Blood Donor Day co-founder Grant Rutherford speaks to The Daily Edition about how the tragic loss of his daughter Chloe to leukaemia led to the formation of the Snowdome Foundation 10 years ago.
Barry Du Bois featured on Studio 10 to support the Snowdome Foundation and raise awareness for blood cancer. He emphasised the importance of funding research and clinical trials in order to find better treatments. With World Blood Donor Day on June 14 he wanted people to help by donating blood or donating funds to Snowdome.
Thank you to Ms Georgie Crozier, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, Shadow Minister for Health and Shadow Minister for Ambulance Services who gave a members statement in Parliament yesterday. Georgie paid tribute to the hope the Snowdome Foundation is giving Australian blood cancer patients. For the last 10 years you have … Continued
Through the funding provided by the Snowdome Foundation Assoc Professor Chan Cheah has been able to ‘make hope real’ for Western Australian blood cancer patients. Blood cancer patients now have access to clinical trials in their home state. That means access to next-generation treatments that are quite often a life line, providing them with more … Continued