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September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month. It also marks one year since father-of-four Jonathan Smith, from Hale, completed successful treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia – a type of blood cancer.
The technology consultant, now aged 52, said: “I’m a keen cyclist and usually cycle about 100 miles a week. Each year I tend to reduce my training in December and then hit it hard again in the New Year. I monitor how I’m progressing and last year I noticed I wasn’t getting any fitter – if anything I was getting worse!
Jonathan said: “I stayed in hospital for the tests and as we were still in a lockdown, they asked me to get my wife on Face Time for a meeting with my consultant and that’s when I realised it wasn’t likely to be good news. But then they told me they had a treatment plan and hearing it was possible to be cured was enough for me at that point. It gave me something to hold on to.
Symptoms of blood cancer can include: Blood cancers affect the production and function of blood cells. There are three main groups - leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma and within these groups there are different types.After being given the all-clear in September 2021, Jonathan has been enjoying life seeing his eldest son Joe graduate and his daughter Ev pass her A-levels.
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