Saving the Lives of People with Blood Cancer
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In 1998, Katy was diagnosed with blood cancer. She needed a stem cell transplant to save her life, but the register looked very different back then. Katy shares her story to help other people going through transplant to not feel alone. Today, I am celebrating 9 years since being cured of my childhood CML (chronic…
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This October, we’re celebrating five years since Anthony Nolan established its first Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) post to provide people with expert care, information and support before and after a stem cell transplant. To mark the occasion, we caught up with Hayley Leonard, the first person to take on the role and drive Anthony Nolan’s…
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At Anthony Nolan, we recently moved away from using the ‘100-day milestone’ that’s often talked about in relation to a stem cell transplant, in part because patients told us they don’t want a timeline attached to their recovery. Patients like George Norton, who received a transplant and went on to be a patient representative on…
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Our Lead Nurse, Hayley Leonard, talks about how we’re changing our approach to patient information to move away from timelines, and focus on patient experience. Timelines are often used in medicine as a marker for recovery. For stem cell transplant patients, we’ve seen this in the emphasis on 100 days and one year after transplant….
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In this blog, our Patient Information Writer and Researcher, Jonathan Kay, takes a closer look at the latest developments in and potential benefits of allo CAR T-cell therapy. Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is an exciting new treatment that has recently been approved for children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), and adults with…
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It is September 2015 and my wife, Claire, and I are on holiday in Orlando, Florida. It’s one of our favourite places. We’d just moved back to the UK after four years of hard work in Australia. The move turned out to be fortunate timing, because of what we were about to go through. When…
