Round Table joins search for young guys to save lives

LIFE-saving young men are wanted in Mid Argyll.

In association with Mid Argyll Round Table, national charity Anthony Nolan is urging young men aged between 16 and 30 to join the Anthony Nolan stem cell donor register.

Anthony Nolan matches incredible individuals willing to donate their blood stem cells or bone marrow to people with blood cancer and blood disorders who desperately need lifesaving transplants.

In 1986, Round Table clubs across the UK and Ireland were instrumental in adding 100,000 new names to the Anthony Nolan register and 30 years on, Round Table clubs are teaming up with the Anthony Nolan charity again, this time targeting young men.

Head of register development at Anthony Nolan Ann O’Leary, said: ‘We’re delighted to restart our lifesaving partnership with the Round Table. We urgently need more people, especially young men, to join the register. Most people have a one in 900 chance of being chosen to donate. But young men have a one in 200 chance.

‘What many people don’t realise is how simple it is to join the stem cell register – it involves filling in a form and providing a saliva sample.

‘For those who go on to donate, about 90 per cent will donate through peripheral blood stem cell collection.

‘This is a straightforward process, carried out as an outpatient procedure, where you can potentially save the life of a person in desperate need of a transplant.’

For more information, visit www.anthonynolan.roundtable.co.uk.