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 […]
Transplant Talk Live: NSW Young Australian of the Year Nihkil Autar
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 […]
Win a new car with the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation Raffle!
Arrow is fortunate to have been named a beneficiary of the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation’s fundraising efforts this year, and you could win a new car! The raffle they’re running this year has a prize pool valued at over $29,000 with a Hyundai i30 hatchback as the first prize! Tickets are just $20 each (or less […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Arrow HSANZ PhD Scholarship Awarded – Congratulations Dr Michael Ashby!
Congratulations to Dr Michael Ashby of Alfred Health who has been awarded the Arrow HSANZ PhD Scholarship for 2024 for his research into “Preventing Acute Myeloid Leukaemia relapse following allogeneic stem cell transplant.” About the study: Michael’s PhD project will study methods of preventing relapse of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) after a bone marrow transplant. […]
Today of all days. (The role of a positive mindset.)
“Today of all days, Jen.” It had taken quite a bit of to-and-fro to arrange a time to speak with Des. He’s a busy man: playing golf, catching up with friends, enjoying concerts, and back in full time work after treatment for multiple myeloma. In short, living life to the full. But the day we […]
It takes a village: Cross-disciplinary collaboration is key in supporting BMT patients.
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro Cross-disciplinary collaboration was a highlight of the recent Australia and New Zealand Transplant & Cellular Therapies (ANZTCT) inaugural Scientific Meeting in Manly. What an amazing few days it was! Part of the charter of the ANZTCT is to create an inclusive, collaborative […]
Youer than you: An update on the Haploidentical Transplant Research Project
Youer than You: we love to be individuals! We all like to think of ourselves as unique, as being a “one off”. Even Dr Seuss celebrated our individuality in his famous line “There is no one alive who is youer than you.” We love to think that we are little pieces of individuality with our […]