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Get practical and emotional help to support a family member or friend with blood cancer, whether it's leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, MDS or an MPN. Find out about your rights if you're a carer, and hear from others.

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Supporting someone through treatment

If someone you know needs treatment for blood cancer, find out how you can help. Includes information for carers, friends and family members.
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Practical support for carers

If you’re living with someone with blood cancer and supporting them in any way, you might be a carer, even if you don’t see yourself as one. Find out about your rights as a carer, and the support available.
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Looking after yourself

When you're close to someone with blood cancer, it can have a big impact on you too. Read our tips to help you look after your mental health and find support.
Gail and Kayleigh talking about how they went from being a partner to a carer overnight

Blood Cancer Heart to Heart

In this video podcast, watch or listen to family members and partners talk about their experience of supporting their loved one with blood cancer.
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Losing a loved one to blood cancer

Although treatment is improving all the time, sadly, some people die from blood cancer. If you're facing the death of a loved one, find out about the services available to support you.
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Information in other languages

If your friend or family member speaks Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Urdu or Welsh, we have information in their language, to help them get the support they need.

This information is accredited with the PIF TICK, the UK's only quality mark for trusted health information.

Last full review June 2026. Next full review due June 2029. We may make factual updates to the information between reviews.

We would like to thank MSE Lead Nurse Jodie Nightingill for checking the clinical accuracy of this information. Thank you also to everyone who shared their insight and lived experiences with us, including Bansri, Dan, Eilish, Gail, Gisa, Janet, Jasmine, Rachael and Sue.