The RTS Team Emily 8 months post transplant
Manchester, UK (10 August, 2010) - RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of robotic sample management and pharmaceutical testing systems is delighted to be sponsoring a Team taking part in the 3 Peaks Challenge in aid of Anthony Nolan, the charity that manages the UK’s most successful bone marrow register.
The Team, all employees of RTS, decided to raise money for the Trust in support of Emily Fish, 6 year old daughter of company employee Mark Fish. In April 2009, Emily was diagnosed with a life threatening bone marrow failure condition called Aplastic Anaemia. This rare condition affects around one child in a million, and after initial treatments failed, Emily needed to have a Bone Marrow Transplant. Fortunately, a worldwide search located a matching donor for Emily on the Anthony Nolan Register. In December 2009, Emily underwent her transplant at the new Royal Manchester Children’s hospital. Emily’s bravery and positivity was captured for all to see as part of a new ITV documentary called “Children’s Hospital”, which followed the progress of a number of children treated at the new hospital. Emily is currently in recovery, doing well and looking forward to being able to go back to school and being with her friends. She has told the RTS Team (Mark Fish, Andrew Todman, Phil Eeles, Mel Whiteside, Paul Brown and Ciara Minnitt) who will climb the three highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales within 24 hours, ‘it´s a really good thing, I hope you have fun and be brave’ and is looking forward to giving them all a big cheer and a hug at the end.
The Anthony Nolan Register does an amazing job connecting hundreds of people with life threatening conditions who desperately need transplants with suitable bone marrow donors. In the UK alone there are 1,400 people with potentially fatal illnesses, waiting to find a match. Any one person has a 1 in 20,000 chance of matching a stranger.
Anthony Nolan is an independent charity and relies on public donations to continue saving lives. To sponsor the RTS Team, go to http://www.justgiving.com/rts3peaks and please consider potentially saving a life by signing up to the bone marrow register, donating is easier and less painful than you might think www.anthonynolan.org.uk/donating
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- Anthony Nolan takes back lives from leukaemia by managing and recruiting new donors to the UK’s most successful bone marrow register. Anthony Nolan also undertakes vital research leading to improvements in the effectiveness and safety of bone marrow transplants.
- There are 16,000 people worldwide and 1,400 people in the UK in need of a bone marrow transplant.
- There are just over 400,000 people on Anthony Nolan’s register, but it’s not enough. We are always looking for people to join the register, particularly young males and people from all ethnic minority backgrounds.
- To join the register you must be aged between 18 and 40, weigh more than 8 stone (51kg) and be in general good health.
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