Beating blood cancer: It takes a community
You’re a crucial part of spreading the word this Blood Cancer Awareness Month. Even the smallest action can help bring us closer to the day we finally beat blood cancer.
It takes naming the symptoms over and over and getting nowhere. Hearing the words 'blood cancer' finally gives you answers.
Words like these will be all too familiar to anyone who’s faced blood cancer.
280,000 people in the UK are living with, or in remission from leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma – it’s the 5th most common cancer in the UK. Those affected tell us the impact of blood cancer on their physical and mental health is enormous.
As a community, we know what blood cancer takes.
It takes away loved ones. It takes away our strength. It takes so much.
But we also know what it takes to beat it
We’ve invested over £500million in research in the past 65 years, getting us to a point where blood cancer research is progressing faster than ever before.
Whether it’s our MAJIC Trial which led to brand new treatment options, to our Clinical Trials Support Service which is helping more people access cutting edge care, we’re working on all fronts to bring about the end of blood cancer.
Every step of the way we’re guided by people like Anjna, whose daughter Mia’s early childhood was taken over by blood cancer. Simone, who felt daunted by the change in her appearance. Mphango, who was repeatedly misdiagnosed. And Paul, who was diagnosed by chance and had to endure gruelling rounds of chemotherapy.
Helping raise awareness: Mphango / Anjna and Mia / Simone / Paul
If you're reading this, you want to know how we’re going to beat this disease.
Every world-first treatment and every life saved takes huge collective endeavour – from researchers dreaming up the idea, patients participating in the trials, and clinicians delivering the care. Blood Cancer UK is at the heart of this collective effort. And we’re powered by the people who support us.
If you’re reading this, you’re involved
Together we can make a huge difference this Blood Cancer Awareness Month. Every new person who learns the symptoms of blood cancer, every patient who discovers our support, every friend who decides to donate – without you, they may never have found us.
So, whether it’s resharing us on social media, or raising awareness with your friends, roll up your sleeves and help spread the word any way you can.
And in the future, when people survive well beyond a blood cancer diagnosis, you’ll know you were part of making that happen.
Helen Rowntree,
Chief Executive, Blood Cancer UK
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