Leukaemia

UK sources of information and / or support

 CLIC Sargent

CLIC and Sargent Cancer Care for Children merged in January 2005 to become the UK's leading children's cancer charity. CLIC Sargent provides support to children and young people with cancer and leukaemia and their families.

 Foundation for Children with Leukaemia

Leukaemia research and funding is the primary aim. Also provides aftercare resources and organises fund-raising events.

 Leukaemia Care

Was formed as The Leukaemia Care Society in 1967 by a small group of parents - some of whom had children with leukaemia, others who had lost children through the illness. They joined together for mutual support and friendship and to help families of newly diagnosed patients in the same position. Then, as now, the Society offered reassurance to these families that they were not alone.

 Leukaemia Research Fund

Includes information on leukaemia, Hodgkins disease, lymphomas, myeloma etc.

 Leukaemia Society (UK)

A charity that raises funds devoted to the recruitment of volunteer bone marrow/stem cell donors, research, education and patient care.

 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Support Association

The aim of this site is to be a resource for patients in the UK with CLL and their carers. They aim to provide accurate and up-to-date information on CLL in a patient friendly format.

 UK Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Forum

A UK based web forum for patients, families, friends and carers of those diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).

 Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) Support Group UK

This website is published and maintained on a voluntary basis by CML patients and carers, for the use of CML patients, their families andcarers.

 Cancerbackup

Information and support for people with cancer and leukaemia.

 African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust

The objective of the charity is to try and do something about the poor representation of the Black community on the UK Bone Marrow register. The members of the ACLT volunteer their time in attempting to raise awareness in the Black community enabling potential donors to come forward and be involved in the process of offering hope and a healthy future to someone whose disease may otherwise prove fatal. This involves organising and conducting numerous recruitment registration clinics throughout the UK, specifically in predominantly Black populated cities and towns.

 Leukaemia (lymphocytic) - fludarabine

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Leukaemia (lymphocytic) - fludarabine.

 CancerHelp UK

CancerHelp UK is a free information service about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families. It is brought to you by Cancer Research UK. They believe that information about cancer should be freely available to all and written in a way that people can easily understand.

 Royal Marsden

A leading UK cancer centre, recognised worldwide for the quality of its services. Site includes comprehensive, authoritative patient information. See their Patient Information section.

  Leukaemia

Information from the North London Cancer Network

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.