June Hoey says if more people sign up, patients like her get more chance of a longer life.
A mother who is desperate for a transplant after a 12-year battle with cancer, has urged people to volunteer to donate stem cells.The British Bone Marrow Registry is now called the NHS Stem Cell Donor Registry, and Ms Hoey is trying to make people aware of the change of name.Ms Hoey has undertaken three rounds of chemotherapy in an attempt to treat her cancer.
For a successful transplant, both donor and recipient need matching tissue types, which can be hard to find. She said: “I brushed it off at first until I had an appointment at the hospital and saw women waiting who had lost their hair – it hit much harder then.”
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