ICON Cancer Care (formerly known as HOCA)
Level 1, Chermside Medical Complex
956 Gympie Road
Chermside QLD 4032
fax: 07 3737 4801
e: LPitcher@iconcancercare.com.au
ICON website
Specialist profile - Dr Pitcher
Directions
Outpatient Consulting Suites
111 Goodchap Street
Noosaville QLD 4566
fax: 07 5455 9455
The websites listed below may provide additional information and resources for patients, parents and carers, and for health professionals looking after people with specific blood disorders.
ICON Cancer Care (formerly known as HOCA)
World Federation of Hemophilia
Haemophilia Foundation Australia
Haemophilia Foundation Queensland
A common and often inherited disorder or deficiency of an important clotting protein called von Willebrand Factor (vWF), that is present in the blood and also associated with the platelets and vessel walls.
World Federation of Hemophilia - Von Willebrand Disease
Haemophilia Foundation Australia - Von Willebrand Disease
Haemophilia Foundation Australia - Women with Bleeding Disorders
Haemophilia Foundation Australia - The Female Factors (HFA Women's Project)
A disorder of the pigment of red blood cells called haemoglobin, that often causes the cells to be smaller than usual, and/or change shape, and in more severe cases, requiring support with transfusions with therapy to prevent iron accumulation.
Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Australia
Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Australia - Factsheets
Thalassaemia International Federation
A common inherited disorder of red blood cells due to a deficiency of a cell wall component, that causes the cell to become spherocytic or round in shape, and rupture (haemolyse) more easily.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital - Hereditary Spherocytosis
An inherited disorder of red blood cells caused by a deficiency of an enzyme, that causes the red cells to haemolyse (rupture) particularly with certain stressors.
A low platelet count caused by increased destruction of platelets, the cells that help blood to clot.