Fact Sheets

These are short summaries that include information about WM and discuss several common treatments for it.

These are all found on the Publication section of the IWMF website (Scroll down to find them)

Topic

About Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia – Highlights

About WM – Details

Bendamustine Fact Sheet

Decoding Drug Names

Ibrutinib Fact Sheet

Plasmapheresis Fact Sheet

Rituxan Fact Sheet

Stem Cell Transplantation Fact Sheet

Velcade Fact Sheet

WMozzies Leaders “Pass the Torch”

March 2, 2026March 2, 2026

Peter Freese became WMozzies Leader on 4 February 2026, World Cancer Day. A Strategic Meeting was held with the new and two past WMozzies Leaders ensuring the continued, dedicated support and advocacy for the Australian WM patient community. The news of the new leader was reported to the international WM community in the IWMF Weekly News on 27 February 2026.WMozzies Leaders meeting ensuring continued, dedicated support and advocacy for the Australian WM patient community. WMozzies Support

FUND RAISING TARGET COMPLETED.

December 9, 2021December 9, 2021

Very excited to report that the $150,000 target has been achieved and the IWMF Roadmap Project will receive the funding as per their agreement with the Leukaemia Foundation. We are very grateful to all the people who donated and we can all be proud to be part of a project that looking very deep into WM and hopefully will lead to further & better treatments. We also wish to acknowledge the assistance of the Leukaemia Foundation in first of all entering into the agreement with the IWMF and helping us with the Donation Page. Should you wish to donate, you can still donate to assist WMozzies by clicking on the donate button on the home page.