Multiculti stamceldonor gezocht. Misschien kunt u deze mevrouw redden
Hello everyone, My name is Nikki and I’m making a global appeal to find a stem cell donor for a bone marrow transplant . I live in the UK, I’m 45 years old and my husband and I have two children, aged 7 and 4. Background I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia on 3 December 2013. In January 2014 I was told that my disease has a rare cytogenetic abnormality called the ten-eleven translocation, which put me at a high risk of relapse following chemotherapy. Therefore my best chance of a cure is to have a bone marrow transplant. This was originally scheduled for April 2014 but things have now become very complicated. Complications As I’ve gone through this journey, more and more complications have arisen. Firstly, my ethnic background: my wonderful parents are quite an exotic mix: my mother is Anglo-Burmese and my father is Irish. In bone marrow transplants, ethnicity really matters and when you belong to a relatively rare grouping like this, your chances of finding ...