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.

Work and Cancer

After a diagnosis of blood cancer, one of the many things that you may think about is how you will continue to work and how you will provide for yourself and your family.

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October 9th

Leukaemia Care successfully campaigns for a new treatment for patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV) in Scotland

Today, the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has announced the approval of maribavir (Livtencity), a new medicine for adults with a post-transplant CMV infection that is resistant to current treatments. ...