Luca, the 19 month-old son of Tara and Orhan, was diagnosed with a rare form of Leukemia in early May. His first session of chemotherapy has not been successful and as we undergo his second session (with hopes of a better outcome) – our consultant has advised that we must start looking for a bone marrow donor for a possible transplant in September – about 10 weeks away.


We are asking all of our friends, family, neighbours, acquaintances to consider marrow donation. All the registries are connected – so location isn’t an issue.

Being tested is simple. All it involves is using some swabs to gather some cells from inside your cheek and sending the kit back in. The kit is free, but donations are accepted. It takes 10 days to get the kit and then about 7 for them to receive it and then two weeks for the testing and matching to be done. We need to find a donor urgently!!!! You can NOT just be tested to match Luca - your information will be entered into the National registry so you have to option in the future - if you are a match - to save someone's life.


Marrow organisations:
UK: anthonynolan.org/
US: marrow.org/
CH: bloodstemcells.ch/
FR: dondemoelleosseuse.fr/
TR: tran.medicine.ankara.edu.tr/