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Leukaemia and other allied blood disorders
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1 Birch Court
Blackpole East
Worcester
WR3 8SG
Tel: 0800 169 6680 CARE Line (24hr, 365 days a year)
Tel: 01905 755977
Fax: 01905 755166
e-mail: info@leukaemiaCARE.org.uk
Web: http://www.leukaemiacare.org.uk
Leukaemia CARE is a National Registered Charity No. 259483, established in 1969. It provides a freephone CARE Line 24/7 for patients and their families to enable people to discuss their feelings, concerns and emotions. In some cases it is able to offer financial assistance and also has a holiday programme. CARE Teams operate throughout the UK and do their best to offer local support for Patients and their families. The organisation publishes a newsletter twice per year and has a wide range of information available, details on request. The charity is also involved in patient advocacy. There are over 10,000 members.
Group details last confirmed September 2008.
43 Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JJ
Tel: 020 7405 0101
Fax: 020 7242 1488
e-mail: info@lrf.org.uk
Web: http://www.lrf.org.uk
Leukaemia Research is a national blood cancer charity, Registered Charity No. 216032 (England & Wales) SC037529 (Scotland), established in 1960. It is the only charity in the UK dedicated exclusively to researching blood cancers including leukaemia, Hodgkin's and other lymphomas, and myeloma. The group offer free patient information booklets and general advice on treatment.
Group details last updated April 2008.
PO Box 68314
London
N22 8XG
Tel/Fax: 020 8374 4821
e-mail: info@leukaemiasociety.org
Web: http://www.leukaemiasociety.org
The Society is a National Registered Charity No. 1040984, established in 1994. It offers support to affected children and adults, their families and carers and has a special interest in bone marrow transplantation. It runs mobile bone marrow donor recruitment clinics and its visiting officer can arrange visits when treatment takes place a long distance from the patient's home.
Group details last updated August 2007.
The following organisations also provide support and information to families caring for children with leukaemia. Their details appear in the Cancer entry:
Christian Lewis Children's Cancer Care
CLIC Sargent
Teenage Cancer Trust
UK Children's Cancer Study Group
Other organisations providing excellent support and information covering all types of cancers and leukaemias but not specially geared to children are listed below. Their details appear in the Cancer entry:
CancerBACUP
Macmillan Cancer Support
Additionally there are a number of very supportive local self help groups around the country. If you want to contact one of these and have been unable to do so through the organisations in this directory please get in touch with Contact a Family.
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