A retired journalist who was told he had just days to live after being diagnosed with leukaemia has met the stem cell donor who saved his life eight years on. Meeting at the offices of DKMS – a charity that aims to recruit stem cell donors – Ivor Godfrey-Davis, 73, smiled and hugged his donor Mark Jones, a 54-year-old railway worker.
“We are genetic twins,” Mr Godfrey-Davis told Mr Jones. “Nobody is closer to this guy than me and nobody is closer to me than this guy, thank you so much!”
Mr Godfrey-Davis was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in January 2015.
