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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Storm Newton

Baby with rare blood cancer finally finds stem cell match: ‘A real pinch me moment’

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The family of a four-month-old baby with an aggressive and rare blood cancer have said a “huge weight” has been lifted from their shoulders after a search for a stem cell match was successful.

Baby Francis, from Walton, Liverpool, has acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), a type of blood cancer which causes the bone marrow to make too many abnormal white blood cells and prevents it from making healthy blood cells.

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