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Seven new Trustees called up to Blood Cancer UK squad
**Extra time called! Now updated with TWO extra additions**
We believe we can beat blood cancer within a generation - Fatima Sulaiman.
Fatima Sulaiman, Head of Research, talks about the future of blood cancer research for us as an organisation, and what we’re doing to prioritise research.
New blood donor rules
New blood donor rules and how they make it easier for gay men to give blood.
We're calling on the Government to postpone lifting restrictions on June 21
We've joined with Kidney Care UK to call on the Government in England to postpone plans to lift all Covid restrictions on June 21, to help protect the 500,000 immunocompromised people in the UK.
Funding for 9 blood cancer research projects announced
Find out about how Blood Cancer UK is funding 9 research projects to help people with blood cancer, including children with Schwachman-Diamond syndrome and lymphoma.
What do covid antibody test results mean for people with blood cancer?
Many of our community have had an antibody test following their covid vaccine to understand what kind of response they’ve had. In this blog, we talk more about what antibody test results mean, what the evidence suggests is important in developing a response to vaccination and what other factors are important to think about.
“When I stood at that first bucket collection, I never thought it would come this far”
After Jake lost his stepdad Paul to acute myeloid leukaemia, he was determined to volunteer to help others affected by blood cancer.
I felt like I'd hit the jackpot: My experiences on a clinical trial
Learn more about Nicky's experience of taking part in a blood cancer clinical trial to treat chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) .
Together we're investing £800K in vaccine efficacy research
Read more about the Blood Cancer UK Vaccine Research Collaborative's research on Covid vaccine effectiveness in people with blood cancer.
Please keep your distance to protect people with blood cancer
Find out why Blood Cancer UK is asking people to keep their distance, to protect people with blood cancer from Covid.
"This is what I missed while shielding in my flat"
This Mental Health Awareness Week, Erica shares a poetic account of how connecting with nature has helped her mental wellbeing, both during lockdown and beyond.
Announcement on the first blood cancer vaccine efficacy research funding
Read Blood Cancer UK's announcement on funding the first research into COVID-19 vaccine efficacy for people with blood cancer.
What else can we use to protect people with blood cancer from covid?
We spoke to Professor Andrew Ustianowski, the clinical lead of a trial called PROVENT, to find out about alternative methods that might protect people with blood cancer from covid.
It feels like while everyone's getting back to normal, my life’s still on pause
Jill's been shielding since March 2020. She hopes that research into how effective the vaccine is will help people with blood cancer get back to normal.
People with blood cancer now account for 1 in 20 new Covid intensive care patients
People with blood cancer now account for 1 in 20 new Covid intensive care patients
Do people with myeloma have an antibody response to the Covid vaccine?
Finding a mixed-race stem cell donor for Dad simply wasn't an option
Read how Ben became his dad's stem cell donor to help fight his acute myeloid leukaemia, after a better match couldn't be found on the stem cell register.
New group launched to fund research into Covid vaccine efficacy for blood cancer
We're part of a new vaccine research collaborative that has been launched to fund research to find out how effective Covid vaccines are for people with blood cancer.
Deciding to take part in a chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) clinical trial - David's story
Read how the progression of David's CLL was reversed by taking ibrutinib as part of a blood cancer clinical trial.
Living with a rare disease: Sara’s story
Sara was diagnosed with Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM) in 2016. WM is a rare form of lymphoma and only 350 people are diagnosed with it each year in the UK. Now in remission, Sara tells us what it was like having an uncommon and often misunderstood disease.
