Tag: BMT

The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) have recently concluded an excellent piece of research into what matters most to those dealing with paediatric stem cell transplants, and we are proud to have played some small part in that project through inviting our patients, carers, and healthcare professionals to participate. The Bone Marrow Transplantation in Paediatrics […]

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 […]

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 […]

You don’t expect to have to wear nappies and learn to walk again when you’ve been successfully adulting for decades. And you don’t expect to follow that up with having to watch your 19-year-old learn to walk again either. But that’s what happened to Aamu. It all began with chronic back pain with no apparent […]

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 […]

Nurse Practitioner, Yvonne Panek-Hudson was among this year’s recipients of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals Conference and Travel Scholarships. She was awarded the scholarship to support her attendance at EBMT 2024 in Glasgow . Yvonne hit quite a few goals while she was there: She gave both an oral and a poster presentation, attended the Canada-Australia-New Zealand-United Kingdom Transplant and Cellular […]

“My bone marrow transplant was the worst and the best time of my life.” That’s how Jordan Lambropoulos describes her ground-breaking stem cell transplant now that she has another year of living under her belt. Bone marrow or stem cell transplants are nothing new, so what makes Jordy’s transplant so ground-breaking? Well, as far as […]

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 […]

The World’s Largest Fun Run – The City2Surf – will be back in Sydney on Sunday 11th August 2024. This iconic event brings 80,000+ people together from all walks of life to run, jog, walk or stroll the iconic 14km course from Sydney CBD to Bondi Beach and raise much needed money for charity at […]

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 […]