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Easy new way for Australians to register to become a bone marrow donor
An exciting new change has occurred to the way Australians can register to become blood stem cell donors. A simple cheek swab is now all you need to do to register through the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry’s ‘Strength to Give’ campaign. For a small number of MPN patients, the only possibility of prolonging survival […]
Leukaemia Foundation’s ‘Light the Night’ – October events across Australia
What is Light The Night? Light the Night is the Leukaemia Foundation’s beautiful evening lantern walk, where Australians come together and transform the darkness into a sea of glowing light to give hope to all those impacted by blood cancer. It’s your night to walk beside those facing their own blood cancer journey, and to remember […]
Call for PBAC submissions to make Jakavi available for PV patients
Novartis is proposing to the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee that Jakavi (ruxolitinib) be made available on the PBS for patients with polycythemia vera (PV). Currently Jakavi is on the PBS for patients with myelofibrosis in certain circumstances. The use of Jakavi by Novartis is proposed for PV patients in certain circumstances – that is, […]
New class of drugs being developed for treatment of polycythaemia vera
An update on the progress with these newly developed drugs is provided by Associate Professor David Ross, Consultant Haematologist at Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide ———————————————————————————— Treatment options for polycythaemia vera (PV) are limited at present. Hydroxyurea, a mild chemotherapy tablet, is the most widely used drug treatment in Australia, although the use […]
Next Canberra MPN Coffee and Chat – 16 June at 10.30-12
We have a delightfully supportive and friendly group of MPN patients in the Canberra region so if you live in or around Canberra, please come and join us. There is always a great deal of news to share, experiences to recount, even sometimes blood test results to discuss! We are meeting in a lovely warm […]
MPN AA supporting research into a new way to treat iron deficiency symptoms for PV patients
MPN AA is supporting MPN research at Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, investigating a new way to treat iron deficiency symptoms and improve quality of life for people living with polycythaemia vera (PV). 100% of all tax deductable donations to MPN AA from now until the […]
Video presentations available from the Joyce Niblack Memorial Conference on MPNs, 2019
You can now watch the video presentations from the 11th Joyce Niblack Memorial Conference on Myeloproliferative Neoplasms , 2-3 March 2019, Scottsdale, Arizona. The powerpoints of the presentations are also available to read online. This biennial patient conference is organised by the MPN Education Foundation in the USA, and features presentations by many of the […]
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