Bone Marrow Transplant

Isabella Ballantyne was born with a rare genetic disorder called Shwachman diamond syndrome (SDS). At the age of four, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and has been in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. Ballantyne’s…

The SA Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR) says their ability to recruit new donors has been severely limited by the outbreak of the second Covid-19 wave. SABMR head of donor recruitment Nadia Chalkley said they typically recruit a few hundred…

Girl battles life-threatening disease TWO weeks before her eighth birthday Hayleigh Stals was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening genetic condition, Fanconi Anaemia (FA). FA is an inherited anaemia that causes bone marrow failure…