LARA - LAM Australasia Research Alliance. Seeking a cure for LAM (Lymphangioleiomyomatosis)

LARA'S Objectives

  • > Education
    Promoting knowledge and awareness of LAM to practitioners and women with LAM
  • > Information
    Providing information for and about women with LAM
  • > Support
    Providing for the needs of women with LAM
  • > Diagnosis
    Facilitating diagnosis by raising awareness of LAM
  • > Research
    Fostering and funding research to discover the cause, cure and prevention of LAM
  • > Fundraising
    Raising money to support our objectives
  • > Networking
    Collaborating with countries in our region by exchanging information

Contact Us

LAM Australasia Research Alliance

4/209 Oxford Street
Bondi Junction 2022

Nevena 0419 185 491
Janet 0411 816 444

PO Box 636 Bondi Junction NSW 1355
Australia

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Watch ABC's Australian Story about LAM





Newly married and starting out on her career, Mara Rezo thought she had the world at her feet. However, at 25 a diagnosis of LAM saw the breakdown of her marriage and shattered her dreams of motherhood. Now working part-time and keeping as fit as she can with yoga, Mara is doing her best to manage the ill effects of the disease.








Young mother, Shani Eldridge had never smoked, but on Christmas Eve 2000 she was diagnosed with emphysema. In disbelief Shani sought a second opinion and was eventually diagnosed with LAM. At 37 she thought she would not live to see her two young sons grow up. Five years later, in July 2005, a lung transplant promised the only hope of survival.

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