Cancer charity breaks new ground with world's first under-18 donor

Blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan has made an historic breakthrough in stem cell donation after it arranged for a donation from a 17-year-old girl. Macclesfield sixth-former Victoria Rathmill signed up to the Anthony Nolan bone marrow register in February this year, when she was still 16 years old, and was identified as a match for a patient with blood cancer within just a few months, which is statistically very rare. [1] Her donation, which took place at the London Clinic in October, makes her the youngest person ever to provide stem cells for an unrelated transplant.

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