Tag: allogeneic stem cell transplant

Our next webinar is on soon, and we’d love you to join us! We will be in conversation with Lisa Smith, CEO of Stem Cell Donors Australia (formerly Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry) and Dr Hung Yang, also from Stem Cell Donors Australia. They will be talking with us about Stem Cell Donors Australia (formerly […]

Jenny Nixon is no slouch. She’s a mother to two sets of twins, who she raised as a single mum from when they were six and three years old, and is a proud grandmother to four. She runs her own baking business, and is the self-professed ‘Queen of Melting Moments’ in Wagga Wagga. She is […]

Arrow is fortunate to have people taking on all sorts of challenges to raise money for our patient support program. Charlotte Pinney is one of them. Here’s her story in her own words: This year, I will be running in the Sutherland to Surf 2025 alongside my mum and dad to raise funds and awareness […]

Poppy Pickett has had more than a lifetime’s worth of medical poking and prodding, with transfusion after transfusion, endless visits to hospitals and specialists, and months in isolation. And she’s only five years old.  Poppy was diagnosed with Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia (DBA) just six weeks after she was born. DBA is a rare disease in which […]

Thursday 7th November 2002 is a day Serina Dosen will never forget. It’s the day she received her new stem cells, and a second chance at life. But it’s also the day she began her “new normal” life, with a body that requires more care than most. Serina is living with long-term GvHD. “Looking after […]

Meagan Clark* is a university lecturer, married, with two kids – all the usual stuff – and considers herself incredibly privileged. But despite her apparent advantages in life, she still struggled with the blows dealt to her and her family during her cancer treatment. Meagan’s story About 5 or 6 years ago, I was diagnosed […]

Liverpool Catholic Club has been a strong supporter of Arrow for many years now, donating over $500,000 to support medical research and also our patient support program. And now, the club has decided to extend that support to create the Liverpool Catholic Club Arrow PhD Scholarship, providing a $50,000 contribution to our PhD Scholarship program. […]

Katherine Robertson, pictured in 1999, not long before her diagnosis with acute lymphocytic leukaemia. Anne Robertson  Anne Robertson was a refined lady, always impeccably presented, with a love for history and family. Anne had a love of the arts enjoying the theatre, Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and she spent much time travelling around UK and […]

Courtney Hughes’ pathway to her nursing career is not your average one, but then Courtney probably isn’t your average kind of girl. Courtney was leading an active life, busy working as a prison officer doing lots of physically demanding work leading bush regeneration projects with crews of inmates, and on top of that doing Crossfit […]

Meet Sam Sheehan, an Aussie living and working in Vietnam with his partner.  Sam, with his ever-positive outlook on life, put a lot of his seemingly innocent health woes down to travel bugs and a difference in health care systems, but as one symptom lead to another, Sam started to come to the realization that […]

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 […]

Meet NSW Young Australian of the Year for 2024 Nikhil Autar! We’re thrilled to announce Nikhil Autar, NSW Young Australian of the Year 2024, as the guest on the first of our patient webinar series called “Transplant Talk Live“. Join us at 7:30 pm on 12th March 2024 to hear him in conversation with Yvonne […]