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The first ever leukaemia-dedicated pathway to improve diagnosis, treatment and care

08 Jul 2025 Policy

The first ever leukaemia-dedicated pathway to improve diagnosis, treatment and care

The Best Practice Timed Pathway We’re delighted to share that Leukaemia UK, in partnership with Lymphoma Action and Myeloma UK, is working with the NHS England Cancer programme team to...

Together we are changing lives – Here’s how your support is making it happen

03 Jul 2025 Policy

Together we are changing lives – Here’s how your support is making it happen

At this point in our advocacy journey, we wanted to share an update to you, our supporters, on everything we’ve achieved so far and what’s next as we continue to...

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Leukaemia UK and Leuka have merged

11 Jan 2019 Governance

Leukaemia UK and Leuka have merged

We are delighted to announce that on 1 November Leuka and Leukaemia UK merged, bringing together two of the UK’s leading...

Leukaemia: Investigating stem cells to prevent cancer

11 Jan 2019 Research

Leukaemia: Investigating stem cells to prevent cancer

What is this research looking at? The development of effective treatments to prevent and eradicate leukaemia requires a better understanding...

Lymphoma: Understanding relapse and treatment resistance

11 Jan 2019 Research

Lymphoma: Understanding relapse and treatment resistance

What is this research looking at? Our immune system is remarkable. It is made up of many different types of...

Myelofibrosis: Finding new ways to treat patients

11 Jan 2019 Research

Myelofibrosis: Finding new ways to treat patients

Myelofibrosis is a fatal bone marrow cancer. The disease is caused by excessive secretion of factors by cancerous platelet-producing cells...

MP opens Leukaemia UK Ambulatory Care Unit

15 Jun 2018 Awareness raising

MP opens Leukaemia UK Ambulatory Care Unit

A unit funded by Leukaemia UK which allows people with blood cancers to have stem cell transplants as outpatients has...

Nick Boles’ Ambulatory Care Unit opening speech

15 Jun 2018 Awareness raising

Nick Boles’ Ambulatory Care Unit opening speech

Nick Boles, Conservative MP for Grantham and Stanford, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2007 and experienced a relapse almost...

Sharing this exciting news: a treatment advance for childhood leukaemia

09 May 2018 Research

Sharing this exciting news: a treatment advance for childhood leukaemia

A deal has been struck to let the NHS offer children an expensive new cancer therapy that has been called...

Blood cancer and your emotions – an expert’s insight

09 Jan 2018 Other

Blood cancer and your emotions – an expert’s insight

Philip Alexander is a haemato-oncology counsellor and cognitive behaviour psychotherapist at King’s College Hospital in London, and one of four...

Leukaemia UK is the new name for the ‘Elimination of Leukaemia Fund’

09 Nov 2017 Governance

Leukaemia UK is the new name for the ‘Elimination of Leukaemia Fund’

Since November 2017 Leukaemia UK is the new name for the Elimination of Leukaemia Fund. For the last four decades,...