American TV news anchor, Robin Roberts, has been diagnosed with MDS. Click here for links to full story and videos.

Please join us on the Windsor Walk on Sunday 13th May 2012. Enjoy the day out and pick-nick, bring friends, family, children, grand-children, neighbours, dogs – and get sponsored to walk to raise funds for MDS UK. We need you!

Calling all Marathon runners! The ballot to get a place is now open for the Royal Parks Foundation Half-Marathon. Would you like to do a sponsored run for MDS UK ?

Anyone with a place in the Brighton Marathon 2012 ? Virgin Money Giving have a competition to win a potential £500 if the runner uses their fundraising page. Closing date is 26 Febr 2012. Please forward to runners.

Petition from a UK nurse – Tracey Nelson – for good individualised patient care within the NHS. Please consider signing it. See also her entry on our Facebook page.

On Friday 15th June 2012, MDS UK Patient Support Group will appear in a supplement printed by the Guardian Newspaper as part of an article by Cancer 52.

We are delighted to introduce two eminent patrons to the MDS UK Patient Support Group: Professor Ghulam Mufti – Professor of Haematology at King’s College Hospital in London, and Lord Tariq Ahmad – The Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon.

DEC 2013 An update on the Sharon Berger #Spit4Mum Campaign, led by her children Jonni and Caz, to increase stem cell donations amongst the Jewish community (Dec 2013). FIT TO […]

DNA mapping for cancer patients A new project is to be launched in the UK to sequence the DNA of cancer patients and those with rare diseases. In MDS – […]

This is a very short online survey initiated by the Rarer Cancers Foundation – requesting the views and opinions of people (patients, carers, friends) affected by advanced cancer. Please help by answering these few questions.