* Every day eight New Zealanders are diagnosed with a form of blood cancer, including leukaemia, lymphoma, or myeloma. * Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand is holding Shine for a Cure lantern events in Auckland’s Domain and Christchurch’s Hagley Park this Saturday. * Pharmac is yet to announce new blood cancer medicines , following a big funding boost by the Government in June.
It is three months since Simon Clark died of blood cancer, and the grief is still raw for his wife, Libby, and four children. “It’s really hard. I miss him a lot.
The kids miss him,” Libby told the Herald , through tears. “Some of the kids are working through some big feelings, and we are being well supported by school. We just miss him, you know.
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