Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeBrave Nathaniel Nabena smiles from his hospital bed ­moments before a life-saving procedure. Nathaniel, battling acute myeloid leukaemia, was on a drip for 30 minutes as umbilical cord stem cells were fed into his body. This is a difficult thing for him to go through, but Nathaniel is being brave, he is well in himself.”What is acute myeloid leukaemia? In an allogeneic transplant, stem cells are taken from a family member, unrelated donor or umbilical cord blood. They are then passed into the patient’s body through a line inserted in a large, central vein, in a process that takes up to two hours.

Source: Daily Mirror June 05, 2021 17:50 UTC