Leukaemia Research Fund

The Leukaemia Research Fund aims to "improve treatments, find cures and prevent all forms of leukaemia and the related blood cancers including Hodgkin's disease and other lymphomas, myeloma, the myelodysplasias and aplastic anaemia." The organisation is primarily involved in high calibre research and international collaboration and raises funds to these ends. However, the above web-site includes a comprehensive range of information for patients, which includes the following booklets.

• Leukaemia and Related Diseases.
• Acute Leukaemia in Children.
• Coping with Childhood Leukaemia.
• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.
• Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.
• Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia.
• Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia.
• Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
• Multiple Myeloma.
• The Myelodysplastic Syndromes.
• Aplastic Anaemia.
• Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation.
• Clinical Trials.
• Donating Stem cells: What's involved?
• Jack's Diary.
• Seven Steps (BMT Guide for patients).
• The Statistics.
• Young adults with a blood cancer.

The following leaflets are also available on the web-site: Amyloidosis; Burkitt's Lymphoma; Down's Syndrome and Leukaemia; Essential Thrombocythaemia; Fanconi Anaemia; Hairy Cell Leukaemia; Histiocytosis; Hypereosinophilic Syndrome and Eosinophil Leukaemia; Immune Thrombocytopaenic Purpura; Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukaemia; Mast Cell Leukaemia; Monoclonal Gammopathy of Unknown Significance; Myelofibrosis Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria; Plasma Cell Leukaemia; Polycythaemia Vera; Prolymphocytic Transformation and Richter's Syndrome as complications of established CLL; Solitary Plasmacytoma; T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia; Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinaemia; Factsheet on Splenectomy and Infection.

 
Checked: November 2005