Each year three in ten blood cancer patients will not find the potentially life-saving bone marrow match they need, which is why Julie Penketh from Ystrad Mynach and the Welsh Blood Service are encouraging more people to join the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry. Since donating her stem cells three decades ago, Julie has continued to urge others to ask to join at their blood donor sessions or by returning a home-delivered, needle-free swab-kit, which can be ordered in minutes…

Three generations of a lifesaving Pontypool family have defied the odds by each being selected to donate their life-saving bone marrow to three complete strangers thousands of miles away. Allan (65), Chris (33) and Corey Taylor (25) were all selected from the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry as the only suitable matches in the world capable of saving patients from Africa, America and Europe respectively. To mark World Bone Marrow Donor Day (Saturday 19 September), the Taylor family is calling on 17-30 year olds across Wales…

Over 150 staff members and counting from local employer Admiral have helped the Marrow for Marley appeal by joining the stem cell and bone marrow donation registry. Admiral staff recently spent the day registering potential blood stem cell donors on behalf of the charity DKMS. The sessions took place in the company’s headquarters in Cardiff to encourage colleagues to get involved in the fight against blood cancer. 6-year-old Marley Nicholls, from South Wales, was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia, a rare…

Cardiff Marrow Society are raising awareness in a fundraiser. The occurrence that sparked this event was that one of the students at Cardiff university was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer and she urgently needs a bone marrow transplant. This is her story,  “Up till just a few months ago, everything was falling right into place for Vithiya Alphons (24), a final year optometry student at Cardiff University. Having just returned from a summer spent travelling in Moldova and…