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.

Working with the pharmaceutical industry

We work with the pharmaceutical industry to ensure that they take the interests of patients into account when developing new drugs and treatments for blood cancer patients.

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July 9th

Blueberry crumble muffins recipe

Bread Ahead are a bakery and baking school based in Borough Market, London. We’ve been enjoying their online classes during lockdown, and now they’ve been kind enough to supply Leukaemia Matters with one of their wonderful recipes. Happy baking!...

July 3rd

Kate Stallard: tales from my garden

Leukaemia Care trustee Kate Stallard is in remission from acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), and since her diagnosis she has found gardening to be a way to cope. Here, she talks about what she’s been up to in her garden throughout June....

July 3rd

Are you furloughed and at risk of redundancy?

Our Welfare Officer, Lisa, has updated our financial guide with the latest information on changes to the furlough scheme, including advice on what to do if you’re at risk of redundancy....