John & Shiv's Tower to Tower page
Siobhan Henn is raising money for Blood Cancer UK
Participants: John Jones, Shiv Henn
Story
Both John and Shiv had siblings who had childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. John's sister, Delyth, at aged 3, one of the earliest success stories and Shiv's brother at aged 12.
Both have had the all clear now for several years and John and Shiv are keen to raise money to further research so the percentage of successes increases!
Delyth said: "I'm still alive because people have put money into research. People are donating phenomenal amounts these days."This money does make a real difference. Everything helps with leukaemia research and they're always doing clinical trials and there are new advances with the treatments. Over the years it's progressed massively because 25 years ago not many people would have come through at the other end. I was one of the lucky ones, because now days the treatment can target the damaged cells. When I was going through my treatment it was targeting all of my cells.
They'd never had anyone who had recovered who had gone on to have children because in those days the survival rate was so low. The treatment has improved a lot since then.
"It's a cause that's really close to my heart. I had to have regular checks for years and I was only fully discharged two years ago."