A Brisbane father battling leukaemia says allowing people to register as bone marrow donors through a postal recruitment program would help thousands like him access vital transplants.
abc.net.au/news/bone-marrow-donors-remote-travel-stops-transplants/101922150Liam O'Brien needs a bone marrow transplant to save his life but the father-of-two still hasn't found a match.A Brisbane father fighting blood cancer has not found a match for a bone marrow transplant
"We're in a position where the cancer is progressing, and I don't have a clear match to cure it," he said. "If you do match as a donor … you sit in a chair, ostensibly donate blood which is where the marrow is housed, and that goes on to save someone's life," he said.However, for people in rural and regional Queensland wanting to help, it is easier said than done.
"Absolutely there is a need for people living in rural and remote locations to be able to offer their marrow because they might be that one person that matches with someone here in a metropolitan area," Mr O'Brien said. Lisa Smith from the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry said with the green light from the government, postal swabs could be rolled out within months.
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