World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD)

It's been dubbed the 'cancer that no-one knows' but World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD), held on September 15 each year, aims to change all that.

WLAD provides a focus for patient support groups, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families, to join forces in a united campaign to inform the public about lymphoma, its symptoms, and how it affects lives. Click here to find out more about lymphoma.

In 2007, the Leukaemia & Blood Foundation staged a range of activities, including seminars for people living with lymphoma. The day also marked the launch of a new website with a fun quiz for patients to learn more about their lymph nodes (www.knowyournodes.org.nz) as well as a new LBF newsletter, Lymphoma Today. Click here to read the first issue.