Emotional Support

You may feel a mixture of emotions following a blood cancer diagnosis. We’re here to help you cope with the emotional impact of being diagnosed and living with a blood cancer.

There is no right or wrong way to feel or react to a blood cancer diagnosis because it affects everyone differently. If you’re struggling with your emotions following a diagnosis, there is lots of help available and information on ways to manage your feelings.

Your feelings and emotions

A diagnosis of a blood cancer can affect you emotionally as well as physically. We can help you to understand what you’re going through.

Coping with a blood cancer

Even though you may feel low and unable to feel like anything will help, there are a number of things you can do to help yourself feel a bit better.

When someone close to you has a blood cancer

Hearing the news that someone you love has a blood cancer can be one of the most overwhelming and devastating times of your life. Whatever your relationship with that person, it’s natural to feel a range of emotions.

Coping with bereavement

For most of us, losing a loved one can be devastating and lonely. Grief is what you will normally experience when somebody you are close to dies and it affects people in different ways.

CAR-T Away from Home Service

This project helps provide accommodation and financial support for people currently undergoing CAR-T therapy who are affected by leukaemia, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs).

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May 2nd

Leukaemia Care supports ITV’s Emmerdale storyline

Over the last few months, Leukaemia Care has been working closely with the writers of the popular ITV soap Emmerdale, focusing on characters Dawn and Billy as they navigate their baby Evan’s acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) diagnosis. ...

April 23rd

Cost of leukaemia – Tony Pullen on sick pay

Tony Pullen talks openly about how being diagnosed with hairy cell leukaemia (HCL) has impacted his financial stability. ...

April 11th

Approval for the first CAR-T treatment for ALL is renewed

CAR-T therapy, tisagenlecleucel, has been given long term approval to be used on the NHS in England, thanks to a decision made by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE). ...