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Our attendance at the recent BLOOD Conference was a runaway success. How do we know? Because since then, we have built new relationships with many social workers across several new hospitals, and the number of families who have asked us…
Each year Arrow offers scholarships for nurses to further their education in the field of bone marrow transplant patient care. We are thrilled to announce the latest recipient of the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship: Lauren Buckland from Townsville Hospital….
High Achiever. That’s an apt description for Wennie van Lint. He has been an academic (Head of Department, no less), has had a football career including a couple of games with South Melbourne (now known as Sydney Swans) and is…
Arrow’s Board met for our Annual General Meeting last Friday evening. We took the opportunity to thank outgoing Chair Mark O’Hara for his many years of service to Arrow. Mark joined the Arrow Board in 2004 after losing his good…
Losing your hair is one of the most common worries for people facing chemotherapy treatment. The Tracey Scone Wig Library has been a long time support for chemotherapy patients, but the lock-downs during the worst of the COVID pandemic saw…
We attended the BLOOD conference for the first time this year, and it was a great success for Arrow! The conference in Sydney was attended by over 1000 clinicians, nurses and scientists, and gave us the opportunity to reconnect with…
Welcome Janna Gibbs to the Arrow team! Janna will be managing our patient support requests and taking care of our finance and administration. We look forward to introducing you more to Janna soon.
A new drug treatment has been discovered by the team at St Vincent’s Hospital to help cure Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). Acute Myeloid Leukaemia unfortunately has the highest mortality rate of any blood cancer and affects 1,000 Australians every year. …
Settle down, get married, have kids, endure the sleepless nights, kiss the bruises better, console them for lost first loves, support them through uni. Watch them settle down, get married, have kids… And so it goes, right? Not always. For so…
Caitlin Mulcahy has been busy lately juggling a hectic worklife, studying and getting married! As a recipient of Arrow’s Professor Geoffrey Driscoll nursing scholarship, Caitlin has recently completed her Graduate Certificate of Cancer Nursing. A thirst for knowledge and a…