{"id":753691,"date":"2026-08-29T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753691\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:48:10","slug":"byfleet-cancer-patient-runs-to-boost-stem-cell-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753691\/","title":{"rendered":"Byfleet cancer patient runs to boost stem cell donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman who has been diagnosed with blood cancer three times is encouraging fellow runners to sign up as stem cell donors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Claudia Adolphus-Green, 33, from Byfleet, Surrey, is to take part in Brooklands Parkrun on Saturday while undergoing chemotherapy treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event is being organised in collaboration with blood cancer charity DKMS UK, that will help runners and supporters to register as potential stem cell donors on the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adolphus-Green was first diagnosed with Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma in 2024, weeks before her wedding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was preparing to move back to the UK from Australia when she noticed a lump near her collarbone during a gym session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After returning to the UK, she underwent scans and a biopsy before being diagnosed with blood cancer in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was set to get married in September,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was married on a Friday, and by the Monday, I had started chemo \u2013 not exactly the honeymoon I had imagined.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who has been diagnosed with blood cancer three times is encouraging fellow runners to sign up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}