Al Murray urges more Brits to become stem cell donors as nephew fights cancer

Today Al Murray is urging ­generous Sun readers to become blood stem cell donors — as his six-year-old nephew fights cancer.Someone in the UK, like Al Murray's nephew Finley, 6, is diagnosed with a blood cancer, such as a leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma, every 20 minutesand his only hope of survival is a bone marrow transplant.

Finley, who lives in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, with three-year-old brother Jacob, is having chemotherapy at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.Al said: “He has to have a full seven days of chemotherapy each time. It can make him very sick.” Following a search of the worldwide register, a perfect match was identified but then the donor withdrew consent a few weeks ago.

Al says Finley, who has had three rounds of chemotherapy, is too young to understand how poorly he is. He said: “Finley says, ‘I’ve got a bug in my blood that needs squashing.’ I don’t think he knows what the stakes are.

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