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#TeamH assembles to urges people to join the Anthony Nolan and NHS Stem Cell Registry

Fourteen-year-old Harrison Walch from Aston is a keen footballer, who plays right back for Aston Swallownest Blues under 15s. Like other teenagers he likes playing Xbox online with his friends supporting Sheffield United – particularly his favourite player Billy Sharp – and walking his French Bulldog Leo.

This week Marie Stark, mother of six year old Ava Stark who received a lifesaving stem cell transplant from a stranger in 2016, made contact with the person who gave Ava a second chance of life.

At the age of just three, Ava was at the centre of a nationwide appeal to find a matching stem cell donor after she was diagnosed with inherited bone marrow failure in 2016. She was treated at Edinburgh hospital where she received various blood transfusions and rounds of treatment. The doctors then came to the conclusion that a stem-cell transplant was her best chance for survival.

The family of a one-year-old with leukaemia are calling for more people to sign up as potential stem cell donors, with blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan, after being told that there is currently no one on the stem cell donor register who is a perfect match for their little boy.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has approved a new drug that will improve the recovery of over half of stem cell transplant patients, after a lengthy consultation with blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan.

A mother from Fort William is overwhelmed after receiving the news that a potentially lifesaving stem cell donor has been found for her daughter. Chloe Purvis, who is just nine years old was diagnosed with an extremely rare blood disorder and told she urgently needed a stem cell transplant, if she is to be cured.  Thanks to an anonymous donor, her transplant will now take place in a couple of weeks’ time. 

175 supporters took on the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon to help Anthony Nolan cure blood cancer. #TeamAN, who ran for a number of personal reasons, are on track to raise more than £560,000 for the charity. 

A squad of Network Rail colleagues is aiming to cycle from Euston to Glasgow in support of Anthony Nolan, the charity combatting blood disease.

Paul Bavington, infrastructure maintenance delivery manager at London Euston, and his team of cyclists will clock up the 400-mile route on bicycles mounted on static turbo machines on the concourse at Birmingham New Street station on Tuesday April 9. The aim of the event is to raise cash and awareness and get passers-by to sign up as stem cell donors.

New findings from Anthony Nolan’s flagship Patient/Donor project have shown that sometimes a perfect match isn’t always successful, and sometimes other matches are.

Anthony Nolan has today published its Gender Pay Gap Report 2017/18.

#findamatchforLilya calls on people across the UK to join the Anthony Nolan register

A 12-year-old from Nottingham is calling on people across the UK to join the Anthony Nolan register and give hope to others, like her, in need of lifesaving stem cell transplants. 

Lilya Coleman Jones’ father, Martin Coleman, took her to the GP in November 2018 because she had been feeling unwell. Tests revealed Lilya had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ETP-ALL) a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer.