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GO LIME THIS SEPTEMBER

September is World Lymphoma Awareness month, so it is TIME to put lymphoma in the limelight!

By joining us in September you will be raising awareness for lymphoma, our sixth most common cancer in Australia and the #1 cancer in the 15-29 age group.

How you can join in:

  1. Set up a fundraising page – Set up an online fundraising page to raise awareness and funds to help support patients.
  2. GO LIME – Host a lime event at your home, workplace or school or virtually – lime it up with merchandise and really put lymphoma in the limelight.
  3. Share – Share your fundraising page, share your photos and videos, turn your Zoom meeting lime – have some LIMEtastic FUN!

Why GO LIME?

Your support will provide Lymphoma Care Nurses to guide Australian families through the lymphoma cancer journey. Lymphoma nurses change lives. Join us and go lime for lymphoma this September.

Lime is the colour of the cancer rainbow for lymphoma and there are many ways you can join the lymphoma in the limelight campaign with us.

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Patient Support Hotline

General Enquiries

Please note: Lymphoma Australia staff are only able to reply to emails sent in English language.

For people living in Australia, we can offer a phone translation service. Have your nurse or English speaking relative call us to arrange this.

Useful Definitions

  • Refractory: This means the lymphoma does not get better with treatment. The treatment didn’t work as hoped.
  • Relapsed: This means the lymphoma came back after being gone for a while after treatment.
  • 2nd line treatment: This is the second treatment you get if the first one didn’t work (refractory) or if the lymphoma comes back (relapse).
  • 3rd line treatment: This is the third treatment you get if the second one didn’t work or the lymphoma comes back again.
  • Approved: Available in Australia and listed by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA).
  • Funded: Costs are covered for Australian citizens. This means if you have a Medicare card, you shouldn’t have to pay for the treatment.[WO7]

You need healthy T-cells to make CAR T-cells. For this reason, CAR T-cell therapy cannot be used if you have a T-cell lymphoma – yet.

For more information on CAR T-cells and T-cell lymphoma click here. 

Special Note: Although your T-cells are removed from your blood for CAR T-cell therapy, most of our T-cells live outside of our blood – in our lymph nodes, thymus, spleen and other organs.