Saving the Lives of People with Blood Cancer
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Hayley Leonard is Lead Nurse at Anthony Nolan. She has held many jobs during her medical career, including working as a transplant nurse. But her latest role as a volunteer courier gave her an insight into what it takes to get stem cells to a patient, ready for their transplant to go ahead. Normally, a…
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This week, the UK Government announced new measures to encourage self-isolation in order to contain the spread of coronavirus. But what are the best ways to manage during isolation? To find out, we asked someone who knows – a stem cell recipient called Jayne, who gained ample experience of isolation following her transplant. So Jayne,…
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Sam was only three years old when he started to experience fatigue and bruising and was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia. He was treated with immunosuppressants, but 17 years later he was also diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and was told he’d need a stem cell transplant. After his transplant, Sam has experienced graft versus host…
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Claire Mason is a senior physiotherapist at Northern Ireland Cancer Centre, working in haematology with a range of patients, including those who have received a stem cell transplant. Claire shares with us some specialist advice about managing physical health before and after transplant, as well as side effects such as fatigue, and how to take…
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When Donna was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2009, she was worried about the impact on her young family. A decade later, Donna is back running around after her boys after having a lifesaving stem cell transplant in 2016. This is her story. When I heard the word ‘cancer’, the first thing I thought was,…
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In 2017, Louisa was diagnosed with leukaemia at just 12 years old and needed a stem cell transplant to survive. Thankfully, she had a match, but the treatment and recovery took its toll on the whole family. Here, Karine, Louisa’s mum, tells us how much Family Camp made such a difference. Transplant and recovery were…
