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Article: Stars out to stage record bone marrow clinic bid
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- South Wales Evening Post
- Article date:
- July 12, 2007
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Swansea's Liberty Stadium was hoping to get into the Guinness Book
of Records today by staging the world's largest bone marrow clinic.
Organisers urged people to go along to put their names on the
Anthony Nolan Trust bone marrow register.
They hope enough turn up to get official recognition in the famous
book.
And more importantly, the event could help youngsters like six-
year-old Rhys Harris, whose extremely rare genetic disorder requires
an urgent bone marrow match.
Dad Kevin, originally from Swansea and now living near Newport,
said: "We know there is a person out there, and we are praying for a