myeloproliferative neoplasms

2Oct2021

How are myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) made from stem cells? What drives transformation into more aggressive blood cancers?

Today Joy introduces us to a fascinating paper about the way different mutations are involved in the formation of MPNs and their risk of transformatio…

Vague symptoms – apparently unrelated and hard to diagnose: ThisIsBloodCancer

Adrian Warnock

30Sep2021

Vague symptoms – apparently unrelated and hard to diagnose: ThisIsBloodCancer

How do you know if YOU have blood cancer? On the last day of Blood Cancer Awareness month let's think about this question together. With many other ty…

What it is like to live with an MPN: MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASM #ThisIsBloodCancer

MPNs R US

13Sep2021

What it is like to live with an MPN: MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASM #ThisIsBloodCancer

At first when you find out it’s 🔹SHOCKING and 🔹OVERWHELMING.There is 🔹NO CURE as of today. It’s a 🔹CHRONIC slow progre…

Finding myself and becoming friends with my blood despite Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Myelofibrosis (MF) #ThisIsBloodCancer

MPNs R US

12Sep2021

Finding myself and becoming friends with my blood despite Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and Myelofibrosis (MF) #ThisIsBloodCancer

Here is Debra Kay Patella’s story. She started out with Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) and recently morphed into Myelofibrosis (MF) both…

Diagnosed after looking at my own blood down a microscope – #ThisIsBloodCancer

MPNs R US

11Sep2021

Diagnosed after looking at my own blood down a microscope – #ThisIsBloodCancer

My cancer story begins in the year 2000 on a sunny day in May. I was in nursing school, in a blood module, looking deep into a slide of my own blood c…

Lisa Wiest

18Jun2021

Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

In keeping with Blood Cancer Uncensored's overall goal of providing support for all blood cancer patients and support people, this is an attempt to pu…