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Article: Urgent need for more bone marrow donors to give the gift of life
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- May 22, 2008
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PAUL Falco was 30 when he signed up to be a bone marrow donor. He
had given blood since he was 18, and on one occasion picked up an
information leaflet about bone marrow donation, which is needed by
people with serious blood disorders such as leukaemia.
A small amount of blood was sent away for screening, and a letter
came back saying he had been accepted on to the bone marrow donor
register by the Anthony Nolan Trust.
Paul, a businessman who is married with two young children, was
actually called upon to go through the procedure in spring last
year.
The charity informed him that he had been matched to a male
patient for whom all other treatments had failed.
"There were no assumptions, ...