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Orlaith Clinton

Lisburn man diagnosed with rare cancer after noticing he was bruising easily

When Chris Farr noticed he was bruising easily and feeling tired, never did he think he'd soon be diagnosed with cancer.

The Lisburn businessman went to his doctor after some persuasion from his wife and family where they were given relief by the report that his blood tests did not look like the markers for Leukaemia.

On Christmas Eve, the family were given the devastating news that Chris' bone marrow results showed he had Acute Leukaemia of Ambiguous Lineage (T/Myeloid), an extremely rare form that only five people in the world have had, currently with no cure.

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