Tag: bone marrow transplant

Arrow is partnering with the Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies Society (ANZTCT) to bring you the inaugural Scientific Meeting of the ANZTCT in Manly from 7th to 9th September 2023. The meeting will feature a comprehensive program of sessions covering Transplant and Cellular Therapies clinical practice, scientific presentations, research workshops and education […]

Paris may well be the city of love, but for a few days in April this year it will also be the city of bone marrow transplants as the 49th European Bone Marrow Transplant Conference is held there. And this year, a dedicated nurse from Calvary Mater Hospital in Newcastle will be there thanks to […]

Why post-transplant vaccination is important, why it’s not always as simple as it sounds. (And what Arrow is doing to help!) Recently we awarded a scholarship for eight nurses from the Cancer Outpatient Nursing Team at the Royal Adelaide Hospital to complete the Understanding Vaccines and the National Immunisation Program. Every bone marrow transplant patient […]

There has been a lot of press coverage lately about bone marrow transplants and stem cell therapies, from politicians calling for an overhaul of the way Australians can register to become bone marrow donors, to heartbreaking stories of life-saving bone marrow donations being left on the tarmac instead of being put on the plane bound […]

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 for financial assistance has doubled. What a terrific outcome! A doubling of the number of […]

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 currently a Leader in finance and economics with GHD Advisory.  And what does that have […]

It was soon after the birth of her second child that Emma’s unusually high platelet count was noticed for the first time, and just 2 months later she was told she had Essential Thrombocythemia, usually diagnosed in people much older than Emma.  Here’s Emma’s story:    Can you tell me, Emma, how you were first […]

Bills. Rates notices. Junk mail. That’s the kind of mail we all deal with every day. This, though. THIS is not your everyday kind of mail, and it’s the kind of mail we love here at Arrow. This is the card that Raf sent. Raf is seven, a paediatric bone marrow transplant recipient, and has […]

Thanks to the James Kirby Foundation for their grant of $10,000 to our patient support program. This grant will be used to help bone marrow and stem cell patients with emergency funding whilst they are receiving their transplant. Covering such essential expenses as utility bills and telephone and internet fees, this support will provide great […]

Sophie and Hailey are identical twins and the best of friends. Both diagnosed with an inherited immune deficiency at three years of age, the girls have faced significant health challenges throughout their nine years of life. The biggest challenge of all has been their recent separation from each other whilst each undergoing a bone marrow […]

With a 50% chance of survival in the first six months after the transplant, at the age of 16, Lisa Cuthbertson could barely have imagined, 36 years laters, she’d be interviewing the very doctor who looked after her. But she did know she was at one of the world’s best hospitals for bone marrow transplantation, […]