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How can I get involved in blood cancer research?

Find out how you can get involved in blood cancer research to help us beat blood cancer.

24th Mar 2021

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The COVID-19 vaccine and blood cancer

Blood Cancer UK responds to study conducted around the COVID-19 vaccine and blood cancer.

11th Mar 2021

Close-up of Covid-19 vaccine vials laid out in rows.

First study on vaccine effectiveness in people with cancer

Read Blood Cancer UK's response to the first study on Covid vaccine effectiveness in people with cancer.

11th Mar 2021

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Living with Essential Thrombocythaemia (ET) - Dick's story

Dick has a rare blood cancer called Essential Thrombocythaemia (ET), read about his experience of being diagnosed and living with the disease.

10th Mar 2021

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Steve lived with MPN

Steve, who lived with MPN, was diagnosed with this rare type of blood cancer in 2018.

5th Mar 2021

Steve, who lived with myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), smiles at the camera whilst sitting at a table in a restaurant.

Should people with blood cancer get an antibody test?

Read more about what people with blood cancer should know about antibody tests and the Covid vaccine.

5th Mar 2021

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Professor Jim Allan's research on CLL (chronic lymphocytic leukaemia)

Watch Blood Cancer UK's video which takes a look at Professor Jim Allan's research into treatments for CLL.

4th Mar 2021

Our response to the vaccine phase 2 priority list

Read Blood Cancer UK's response to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommendations for Phase 2 of the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme

26th Feb 2021

Close-up of Covid-19 vaccine vials laid out in rows.

Jane's MPN experience

Jane shares her experience of MPN and her advice for those who've recently been diagnosed

26th Feb 2021

Antibiotic could help treat MLL-AML

Discover how research by Cancer Research UK and Blood Cancer UK found an antibiotic could treat a type acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).

24th Feb 2021

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Can people with blood cancer stop shielding on March 31 2021?

Find out the latest information from Blood Cancer UK regarding England's roadmap out of Covid lockdown and how this effects people with blood cancer.

24th Feb 2021

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How dangerous is Covid-19 for people with blood cancer?

Read Blood Cancer UK's article looking at study's on how dangerous Covid-19 is for people with different types of blood cancer.

5th Feb 2021

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One thing you wish you'd known about blood cancer

Blood Cancer UK's ambassadors have come together to share the things they wish they knew about blood cancer when they, or their loved ones, were diagnosed.

4th Feb 2021

Professors Van-Tam and Vallance's comments show vaccine priority must change

Following comments by Jonathan Van-Tam and Patrick Vallance that vaccines are almost certain to prevent covid transmission, we're urging the Government to give adults living with people with blood cancer a higher vaccine priority

28th Jan 2021

Household members of people with blood cancer should be a priority for vaccines

We call on the government to make household members of people with blood cancer a priority for the coronavirus vaccine.

20th Jan 2021

Close up of a doctor with blue gloves who has just injected a blood cancer patient in a checked shirt in their upper arm.

Taking part in Walk of Light for my son Ozzie

Read why Miranda will be taking part in Blood Cancer UK's Walk of Light, in memory of her son Ozzie who had acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) .

18th Jan 2021

Ozzie, who lived with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), sits at a table in a room with Christmas decorations.

We're banishing Blue Monday in favour of You Monday

Find out why Blood Cancer UK is replacing Blue Monday with You Monday.

18th Jan 2021

You Monday logo, banish blue Monday and focus on you. The logo has a line through Blue, with the word you above it so it says You Monday instead of Blue Monday.

This New Year I'm giving up the phrase "why can't I do that?"

Read Angie's article on living with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and hear her plans to embrace 2021.

22nd Dec 2020

Angie Sharp who lives with CML, sits smiling in the garden with a large dog on her lap.

Christmas 2020 message from Blood Cancer UK

Read a Christmas message from Blood Cancer UK CEO Gemma Peters

22nd Dec 2020

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Shielding at Christmas will be lonely... but I believe and hope in the future

Find out why Pat, who has Hodgkin lymphoma, will be shielding from Covid this Christmas, but is looking forward to the future.

17th Dec 2020

Pat, who lives with Classical Hodgkin lymphoma, celebrates Christmas with her family in her house.