{"entity":{"id":"lymphoma-action","kind":"institution","name":"Lymphoma Action","aka":["Lymphoma Association","Lymphoma Action (registered charity 1068395 and SC045850)"],"tldr":"The United Kingdom's only charity dedicated to lymphoma: a freephone helpline, support groups, a buddy scheme, a lymphoma trials database and a seat at the table when NICE and the Scottish Medicines Consortium appraise a lymphoma medicine.","summary":"Lymphoma Action is a registered charity in England and Wales (1068395) and in Scotland (SC045850) and describes itself as the UK's only charity dedicated to lymphoma, the most common blood cancer. It runs a freephone helpline on 0808 808 5555 with live chat and email, support groups and a buddy scheme, a Preparing for Treatment Service and Live your Life workshops for people on active monitoring or finishing treatment, and Lymphoma TrialsLink, a lymphoma clinical trial database and information service. For professionals it runs an education and training programme and an interactive map of specialist cutaneous T-cell lymphoma centres in the UK. Its advocacy work includes submitting the patient perspective to health technology assessments of lymphoma medicines.","asOf":"2026-10-01","links":[{"label":"Lymphoma Action","url":"https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/"},{"label":"About us","url":"https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/about-us"},{"label":"Helpline","url":"https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/support-you/helpline"},{"label":"Find a CTCL treatment centre","url":"https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/healthcare-professionals/find-ctcl-treatment-centre"}],"tags":["charity","uk","lymphoma","patient-support"],"related":[],"cancers":["non-hodgkin-lymphoma","hodgkin-lymphoma","dlbcl","follicular-lymphoma","mantle-cell-lymphoma","marginal-zone-lymphoma","cutaneous-t-cell-lymphoma","burkitt-lymphoma","primary-cns-lymphoma","peripheral-t-cell-lymphoma","waldenstrom"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Aylesbury","country":"GB","lat":51.816,"lng":-0.813,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/","programs":["Freephone helpline 0808 808 5555, live chat and email","Support groups and the buddy scheme","Lymphoma TrialsLink: a UK lymphoma trial database","Preparing for Treatment Service","Live your Life workshops","Find a CTCL treatment centre map","Education and training for healthcare professionals"]},"route":"/institutions/lymphoma-action/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"burkitt-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Burkitt lymphoma","route":"/cancers/burkitt-lymphoma/"},{"id":"cutaneous-t-cell-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (mycosis fungoides and Sezary syndrome)","route":"/cancers/cutaneous-t-cell-lymphoma/"},{"id":"dlbcl","kind":"cancer","name":"Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma","route":"/cancers/dlbcl/"},{"id":"follicular-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Follicular lymphoma","route":"/cancers/follicular-lymphoma/"},{"id":"hodgkin-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Hodgkin lymphoma","route":"/cancers/hodgkin-lymphoma/"},{"id":"mantle-cell-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Mantle cell lymphoma","route":"/cancers/mantle-cell-lymphoma/"},{"id":"marginal-zone-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Marginal zone lymphoma","route":"/cancers/marginal-zone-lymphoma/"},{"id":"non-hodgkin-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (all types)","route":"/cancers/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/"},{"id":"peripheral-t-cell-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Peripheral T-cell lymphomas (including cutaneous T-cell lymphoma)","route":"/cancers/peripheral-t-cell-lymphoma/"},{"id":"primary-cns-lymphoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Primary CNS lymphoma","route":"/cancers/primary-cns-lymphoma/"},{"id":"waldenstrom","kind":"cancer","name":"Waldenström macroglobulinaemia","route":"/cancers/waldenstrom/"}]}}