Two women who went to school together have been reunited through their experiences with stem cell donations and are urging people to join registers.
Beth Bowyer, 26, who now lives in Manchester, signed up to the stem cell register in 2019 by doing an “easy cheek swab”, and last year received a call confirming she was a match for a critically ill patient overseas.
Bowyer said: “I thought it would be scary, but it was like giving blood for a few hours.”
Isabel Marsh, 26, who lives in Jersey, was diagnosed with leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, in March 2021 when she was 21. She had a stem cell transplant in September 2021 and said it was the “best news” when a match was found.