Ruslana Camilleri, underwent treatment at a young age. I was diagnosed with leukaemia as a child. Like many young cancer patients, my life suddenly became focused on hospital visits, treatment and recovery. While other children were spending their days in classrooms, making friends and building memories, I was fighting a […]
‘We didn’t know the symptoms’ – Kelly Holmes’ mission to spotlight multiple myeloma
Dame Kelly Holmes has spoken about the shock of her mother’s multiple myeloma diagnosis as she launches a campaign aimed at improving awareness of the blood cancer Double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes is on a mission to raise awareness of multiple myeloma in memory of her late mother. Holmes, […]
Blood donor celebrated for providing lifesaving support to sickle cell patients
Tinashe Chigora, 29, from Crawley in West Sussex, is one of just 1,200 people on the UK’s rare donor panel, a group crucial to supporting patients with sickle cell disorder. His blood is so unique that he is called in especially to donate to people with sickle cell. Mr Chigora […]
Arsenal fan misses title celebrations to help save a stranger’s life
As Arsenal supporters across the world celebrated the club’s first Premier League title in 22 years, one devoted Gooner was marking the occasion in a very different way. Thomas Alexander Apthorp, a 28 year old lawyer from London, was identified as a stem cell donor match for someone in urgent need of a […]
Match4Mum
My name’s Nidahl, I’m 24, and my world turned upside down in January when my amazing mum Zeinab was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). She’s having her second round of chemo at the moment and as soon as she’s strong enough, she’ll need a stem cell transplant to survive. But my mum is Eritrean and I was so […]
I thought rash was stress of moving home – the truth was far worse
Faith Hinitt, from Retford, Nottinghamshire, assumed the stress of moving home was getting to her – but the reality was far worse than she imagined – and changed her life. She started experiencing an itchy, red rash on her chest around the same time she became a homeowner in June 2023. […]
Living with myeloma
‘I chose not to fight this blood cancer, but to instead live alongside it’ Declan Watson outlines how myeloma, a blood cancer notoriously difficult to diagnose, offers symptoms so vague that many patients only learn the truth in an emergency. Declan Watson is Executive Director of Myeloma Ireland. Diagnosed with […]
World Blood Cancer Day 2026
Every year on 28th May, people around the world come together for World Blood Cancer Day, a global movement to raise awareness and drive action in the fight against blood cancers and advocates for a better treatment. The day serves as a reminder of: The growing global burden of blood […]
Major research exposes unequal blood cancer survival rates in the UK
The study, which analysed more than 413,000 blood cancer cases, identified disparities linked to deprivation and uncovered significant gaps in the consistency of blood cancer data collection across the UK. It is the first research to examine survival outcomes by blood cancer subtype across all four nations, using data from […]
The silent signs of blood cancer you shouldn’t ignore
Brian (not a real name), a 28-year-old builder from Barking, thought his constant tiredness was simply the result of long working hours and sleepless nights. When bruises began appearing on his arms without any injury, he ignored them. Weeks later, after repeated fevers and sudden weight loss, doctors discovered something […]