More than 8,000 people have registered as potential stem cell donors in the past week after hearing the story of Newry teenager Daniel Greer, a charity says
An international charity dedicated to helping people with blood cancer has said about 8,800 people from Northern have registered as potential stem cell donors in the past week.However, after an appeal from a Northern Ireland family seeking a bone marrow transplant for their teenage son who has acute myeloid leukaemia, there has been an "incredible spike" of people registering as a donor with DKMS.His parents took him to his GP and after blood tests, he was diagnosed with leukaemia.
"We know 18 to 30-year old men are often selected as the first choice of donor - if anyone in that age group has not registered, we would encourage them to do so. "I would appeal for anybody that is eligible to please sign up to the bone marrow registry and if you are not eligible for one reason or the other for that, even people who are ordinary blood donors or platelet donors.
More than 2,000 people in the UK are in need of a bone marrow or stem cell transplant every year, according to the stem cell donor charity Anthony Nolan.
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