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St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the heart of London has become the fourth UK hospital, and the second in London, to host a dedicated Anthony Nolan nurse to help patients who have received a stem cell transplant to treat their blood cancer or blood disorder.

Debbie Anderson has been appointed as the Clinical Nurse Specialist for the hospital and will provide integrated care to approximately 200 patients and their families each year.

Anthony Nolan, the blood cancer charity and stem cell donor register, will fund the post for three years.

Stem cell transplant recipients are left feeling like they have “fallen off a cliff” as our new research reveals that one in five are not offered any specialist NHS support during their long-term recovery.

Despite transplant patients often being known as “patients for life” due to the long-term side-effects of the treatment, many patients are not receiving adequate support for the physical, practical and psychological challenges they experience.

Thirteen Anthony Nolan supporters, including a nine-year-old from Chorley, make up 104 stories which form a spectacular installation in London.

Rory was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, a rare form of blood cancer, in 2012. Rory’s best chance of a cure was a bone marrow transplant which involved eradicating his diseased cells with chemotherapy and replacing them with cells from a stranger. 

An optometrist from Bedford is raising awareness and funds for blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan in memory of her husband, who died after developing a rare blood disorder.

Poonam Shah, 38, is organising a series of fundraising challenges in memory of Rakesh Shah, who would have turned 40 years old this November. Poonam’s challenge will be to climb Mt Kilimanjaro in September – something her and Rakesh had always dreamed of doing together

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Local fundraising and awareness group, the Jersey Friends of Anthony Nolan, have raised £576,070 for the blood cancer charity since 1994.

Last week, the Friends group celebrated having raised this remarkable total by visiting Anthony Nolan’s offices and research laboratories in Hampstead, London.

Tim Hicklin, Chairperson of Jersey Friends of Anthony Nolan, lives in St Lawrence and was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in 2008.

All of us at Anthony Nolan are incredibly saddened to hear the news that Professor Jon van Rood has passed away, at the age of 91.

Professor van Rood had an extraordinary life – and he played an enormous part in establishing stem cell transplants as a lifesaving procedure across the face of the globe.

As a teenager, he lived through the German occupation of the Netherlands during WWII. After being imprisoned twice by German troops, he found himself hiding in a cold, poorly-lit cellar – at one point eating daffodil bulbs as his only source of food.

Blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan and its team of 14 people who received a lifesaving stem cell transplant are heading to North Lanarkshire for the British Transplant Games.

The British Transplant Games is an annual event, this year being held from Thursday 27 July – Sunday 30 July in North Lanarkshire, in which people who have received lifesaving organ or stem cell transplants take part in a series of Olympic-style events.

A selfless hero asked the stranger whose life he saved to be best man at his wedding after the two struck up an unlikely friendship.

Paul Rogers, 51, donated his stem cells to Brett Dingwall, 67, just over ten years ago, after the latter was diagnosed with life-threatening acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).

Best man Brett joined Paul and his wife Laura as they were married at St Paul’s Walden in Hertfordshire on 13 May.

A dedicated Banstead volunteer who has made over 300 trips delivering stem cells across the world has retired from the role on her 75th birthday.