Bone Marrow Donors Required

Rachel Peck tells me her fiance has been diagnosed with Myeloma, a leukaemia cancer. He needs a bone marrow transplant once his chemotherapy course is completed and will be relying on an anonymous donor who is registered with the Anthony Nolan Trust. The Anthony Nolan Trust is coming to St John’s Methodist Church, Woodside Road, Amersham on Thursday 3 July between 4.30pm and 7.30pm. If you are aged 18 - 40, generally in good health and happy to give a blood sample which can be tested for a match, you can help a patient waiting for a bone marrow transplant. Your donation could help save the life of someone like Rachel’s fiance. Visit the Anthony Nolan website www.anthonynolan.org.uk or phone 0207 284 1234.
For a bone marrow transplant to succeed the tissue type of a donor and patient must match very closely. The best source of matching tissue is from the donor’s family, the chance of a brother or sister having the same tissue-type is one in four, but 70 per cent of patients need to find an unrelated donor.
Donating bone marrow is not in the least like donating blood, it requires medical treatment and in my opinion should not be undertaken lightly. With the help of many people, Rachel will be posting 18,000 flyers about the bone marrow session to homes around Amersham.