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Article: vital: YOU CAN HELP SAVE RICHARD; RICHARD COLSON IS STRUGGLING TO FIND SOMEONE WHO WILL GIVE HIM A BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT. HE REVEALS HOW HE DEALS WITH HIS BLOOD CONDITION AND URGES PEOPLE TO SIGN UP TO THE ANTHONY NOLAN TRUST.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2008
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Byline: By Laura Coventry
MORE than 200 people have already helped save Richard Colson's life - but just one more is needed to keep him alive.
Already the 22-year-old, who suffers from aplastic anaemia, has received one pint of blood from 52 people while a further 168 donors have given pools of platelets needed to keep this young man alive and well.
Now Richard is in desperate need to find a suitable bone marrow match.
So far, a worldwide search of more than 11 million potential bone marrow donors - which includes 390,000 in the UK - has ...