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In 2000 I was diagnosed with an acute form of myloid leukaemia. After a year of treatment, the cancer returned and my chances of survival were very low. However, the Anthony Nolan Trust found me an unrelated bone-marrow donor. I have never met the person who provided some of his marrow, but I now have his blood system. I even have his red-blood type.
 
The Nolan trust is essentially a register of people willing to donate bone marrow, and provides support for donors as well as those affected by the disease. I still remember vividly the day that a woman turned up at the room where I was being treated at University College Hospital with a plastic bag of my donor’s marrow. She had raced there from The Royal Free in Hampstead. She commented that it was still warm!

Recovering from the transplant was a long process. However, I have been able to return to work, and to carry out research in Africa. In 2004 I was able to go back to the places where I did my first field-research back in the early 80s, and I have been carring out fieldwork annually ever since. It it now nine years since my transplant, and in almost every respect I am back to full health.

As some of you know, I run the London Marathon to raise money for the Nolan Trust. This year  I am hoping to raise £1,500. Could you please sponsor me – even if it is only for a small sum?
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