Acute Myeloid Leukaemia relapse after bone marrow transplant
“When someone has acute myeloid leukaemia, nothing else matters. If we don’t fix the leukaemia, well… nothing else will be a problem for much longer either.” That’s Michael Ashby, our newest PhD Scholarship recipient, doctor, researcher, father of three, marathon runner, and not one to mince words. But he’s right: if the underlying disease isn’t […]
Arrow Jazz Conference and Travel Scholarships 2024
The Arrow Jazz Pharmaceutical Travel Conference scholarship was established this year to help healthcare professionals working in haematology pursue their research and continuing education goals. Funded by a generous $20,000 donation by Jazz Pharmaceuticals, the scholarship supports nurses as well as allied health professionals, researchers and data managers. This year, the scholarship attracted a number […]
Helping people thrive after bone marrow transplant
Is it possible to thrive after a bone marrow transplant, not merely survive? When you’re having a bone marrow transplant, it can feel as if your whole world stops. Everything else is put on hold while you hunker down and focus on getting through your treatment. And rightly so! What not many people stop to […]
Masters Scholarship: meet our newest recipient Cristina Lucas
We are pleased to be able to introduce the most recent recipient of Arrow’s Masters Scholarship: Cristina Lucas. Cristina was a surgical nurse before joining Xavier 9 South, one of the acute inpatient cancer services wards covering the specialties of haematology and bone marrow transplant at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. Initially, Cristina had reservations […]
Professor Driscoll Scholarships awarded
Arrow’s Professor Driscoll Scholarships have recently been awarded to three specialist nurses. Congratulations to: Charlotte Anderson, Royal Hobart Hospital – studying the Principles of Cancer Care module Jaclyn Lindstrom, Calvary Mater Newcastle – studying Foundations of Haematology Nursing Jessica Cashford, Townsville University Hospital – studying Foundations of Haematology Nursing Charlotte Anderson: Charlotte didn’t give […]
Stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant. What’s the difference?
You’ve probably heard some people say that they’re having a bone marrow transplant and others say they’re having a stem cell transplant, but what’s the difference between those two things? Let’s start with a few definitions. Bone marrow Bone marrow is a spongy substance in the centre of bones that produces blood cells. There are many kinds of […]
Data manager Alia Cibich receives Jazz Pharmaceuticals Award
How do doctors know what treatment is likely to help which patient? Data. And lots of it. Years, no decade after decade of it. While you probably won’t ever see a TV series with the likes of a dreamy Patrick Dempsey playing the role of key data manager, here at Arrow, we think data managers […]
Jackie’s cat saved her life. (Oh, and an allogeneic stem cell transplant.)
A woman with a cat bite walks into a medical centre… No, it’s not the start of a bad joke, but what followed for Jackie was so surreal it felt like it could have been. She had been feeling fatigued and lethargic for a while, but it wasn’t until a routine blood test after she […]
Hardship can happen to anyone
“How are you doing today?” It’s an innocuous question for most of us, something we ask often without really listening to the answer. But hardship can happen to anyone. “I’ll tell you on Tuesday,” was the answer I got when I asked this of Josee. Tuesday is the day Josee and her husband Joseph will […]
A novel intervention in haematology: Chasing Grannies at the 2023 Blood Conference
We are proud to have supported two nurses to attend Blood 2023, a haematology focused conference in Melbourne: Serafina Levak from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney who received the Shaun Rosen Scholarship and Kylie Sih from Royal Hobart Hospital who received funding through the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship. Both nurses had valuable experiences at […]
International Myeloma Society meeting in Greece
A big part of what we do here at Arrow is help build a strong community of support around bone marrow transplant patients. One of the ways we do that is to help BMT nurses attend conferences where they can learn from and with their colleagues around the world. We recently awarded Babita Khanal from […]
The Allan Frenkel Foundation continue their support of Arrow
The Allan Frenkel Foundation was born in 1997, the year Allan would have been 19. Allan Frenkel is described as joyful and happy young man, the life of the party, and always ready for fun. That’s how Allan’s family and friends remember him. Those fond memories are also tinged with great sadness though, because one […]