World Lymphoma Awareness Day
World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD) is held on 15 September every year during Blood Cancer Awareness Month.
World Lymphoma Awareness Day 2026 is on Tuesday 15 September so please join the global lymphoma community online to share lymphoma stories, facts and support. We need your help to spread the message far and wide!
If you post on social media, please use the hashtags #WLAD2026 or #WorldLymphomaAwarenessDay to increase your reach and tag us too so we can share.
Download our graphics to share on social
The 2026 WLAD campaign is called Navigating Lymphoma and CLL Together
This aims to shine a light on all the different challenges people can experience throughout diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and beyond. These can include:
- Sent for test after test
- So many questions, not enough answers
- Getting the wrong diagnosis
- Not understanding my lymphoma subtype
- Feeling confused and lonely
- Overwhelmed by scientific information
- Losing my hair
- Making choices but not fully understanding
- Unable to sleep
- Life turned upside down
- Unexpected side effects
- Anxiety
- Cancer-related fatigue
- Fearing the cancer will return
If any of these feel familiar, you can join the No Patient Travels Alone Pledge and help show others that they do not have to navigate this by themselves. By sharing your experience, you can help someone else feel seen, understood and supported.
Just choose one of the challenges you have experienced and share it on social media using #WLAD2026 - graphics representing each challenge can be downloaded from the Lymphoma Coalition website.
As the UK's leading charity dedicated to lymphoma, our mission is to make sure no one faces lymphoma alone.
We’ve been providing trusted information and support since 1986 and we support our community to share their experiences to help others and to raise awareness.
FAQs about World Lymphoma Awareness Day
World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD) is held every year on 15 September.
World Lymphoma Awareness Day was established in 2004 by the Lymphoma Coalition - a worldwide network of patient organisations that support people affected by lymphoma, which Lymphoma Action co-founded. The Lymphoma Coalition now consists of more than 100 member organisations from over 55 countries, so they all support World Lymphoma Awareness Day in their own way.
The campaign aims to raise public awareness about lymphoma symptoms, early diagnosis and treatment, as well as the wider impacts of living with lymphoma. Lymphoma is the most common form of blood cancer but it is not well know, so it's important more people are aware of the signs to look out for and where to get help.