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The family of a mother-of-two and lifelong Manx resident have launched a desperate appeal for a stem cell donor to save her life.

Jane Subachus from Sandygate, has myelofibrosis and has been told by doctors that she urgently requires new stem cells from a stranger to rebuild her immune system, so she can fight infection and disease.

Shirley Kordie is a 33-year-old mother from Walsall who has been living with hypoplastic MDS – a very rare form of blood cancer for the last seven years. Shirley needs a stem cell transplant from her brother Joseph, a nurse who lives in Ghana – but the Home Office has refused him a visa because he doesn’t earn enough money. 

Anthony Nolan is very pleased to announce that Alastair Stirling Boyle has been celebrated in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to charity, particularly Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and to the Anthony Nolan Partnership. 

In response to the news Anthony Nolan’s Chief Executive, Henny Braund, said: 

In response to the publication of 'A review into black, Asian, mixed race and minority ethnic blood, stem cell and organ donation', Henny Braund, Chief Executive of blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan, says:

'Anthony Nolan was very pleased to contribute to the report and offer our full support as attention turns to securing the successful implementation of the review’s recommendations.

Donor recruitment 

During Volunteers Week, blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan is saying thank you to the volunteers who help power the charity’s lifesaving work.

Volunteers work across many areas of Anthony Nolan, helping the charity to save the lives of people with blood cancer who are in need of a stem cell transplant.

Anthony Nolan has become part of a major new cancer charity coalition to help improve the lives of children and young people with cancer.  

The Children and Young People with Cancer (CYCC) coalition launches today with a letter to Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt, co-signed by our CEO Henny Braund. The CEO led coalition aims to improve outcomes for children and young people with cancer through speaking up on issues that matter to them, having a unified voice and supporting each other as charities and CEOs. 

The #CureKaiya appeal is urging the UK's Indian community to join the Anthony Nolan stem cell register.

Five-year-old Kaiya thrives winning races at sports day and enjoys swimming and gymnastics. She also loves the colours blue and pink, watching Topsy and Tim and playing 'mummies and daddies' with her three-year-old sister Annika.

In July 2017 Shilan Madurasinghe, a father from Tottenham, was given the devastating news his young daughter, Camllie, had Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). AML is an acute form of leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, which accounts for less than 1% of all new cancer cases diagnosed in the UK each year. Three- year- old Camillie has relapsed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.

This Nurses Week, blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan is celebrating the appointment of its ninth Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) at Kings College Hospital London.

Anthony Nolan funds CNS at nine hospitals across the UK in the aim of raising the standard of post-transplant care for stem cell transplant recipients.