Know how to spot leukaemia

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines. NG12 states that you are required to have an urgent blood test (within 48 hours) if you are presenting with any of the leukaemia symptoms.

If you have fatigue, bruising, bleeding or repeated infections. Contact your GP and ask for a blood test.

Early diagnosis saves lives.

Are you experiencing fatigue, bruising, bleeding or repeated infections?

Knowing how to spot leukaemia is key to early diagnosis, which can save lives.

Each year we reach millions of people with our spot leukaemia campaign but despite our efforts, awareness of blood cancer amongst the public, as well as in primary healthcare, is still dangerously low and blood cancer continues to claim more lives than prostate or breast cancer every year.

Currently, patients with leukaemia have a significantly higher rate of emergency diagnosis than other forms of cancer. The highest emergency presentation rates for any cancer type occur in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), at 66% of patients. This is a huge difference when compared with the overall cancer emergency presentation percentage (21%).

Unfortunately, many people aren’t aware of the signs and symptoms of leukaemia until they or someone they know is diagnosed. This leads to a delay in visiting a GP, which can delay a diagnosis, worsening the outcomes for patients.

Quite often, due to the non-specific nature of the symptoms and relative rarity of leukaemia, people are misdiagnosed by their GP or attend several times before diagnosis. This means that there is a delay at primary healthcare.

We need your help in reaching the general public so that everyone is able to Spot Leukaemia sooner.

Early diagnosis saves lives

Know the signs and symptoms to look out for.