# Blood Cancer Awareness Month (September 2014)

**URL:** <https://patientforum.anthonynolan.org/t/blood-cancer-awareness-month-september-2014/81>\
**Category:** General advice\
**Created:** [September 1, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://patientforum.anthonynolan.org/t/blood-cancer-awareness-month-september-2014/81 "2014-09-01T18:51:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![KatherineSinfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@KatherineSinfield](https://patientforum.anthonynolan.org/u/KatherineSinfield)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://patientforum.anthonynolan.org/t/blood-cancer-awareness-month-september-2014/81/1 "2014-09-01T18:51:11Z")

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September is officially Blood Cancer Awareness Month

The view this year is that diagnosis (particularly at GP level) needs to be improved to aid better survival rates. Hence emphasis is being placed on identifying the clusters of symptoms so that once pieced together, diagnosis can be achieved quicker.

What if anything are you planning to help increase awareness?  
Do you think these ‘awareness months’ make a difference?  
You now know the symptoms, but did you before your diagnosis?

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**Author:** ![Dieseldrinker62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dieseldrinker62](https://patientforum.anthonynolan.org/u/Dieseldrinker62)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://patientforum.anthonynolan.org/t/blood-cancer-awareness-month-september-2014/81/2 "2014-09-03T22:06:42Z")

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I only went to the Doctors because my symptoms sounded like diabetes. Fatigue, breathlessness dizziness, sweating, blurred vision.

I’d never have thought I had something so serious.