Daniel David De Gale (14 March 1987 – 8 October 2008) inspired a major push to promote awareness of Leukaemia in the United Kingdom's black community when, as a child, his mother and stepfather launched a search for suitable bone marrow donors and a charity.
Daniel, born In Hammersmith London, but raised in the London Borough of Croydon, was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1993 at the age of six. Daniel was put on a 2 year course of chemotherapy whic...
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Daniel David De Gale (14 March 1987 – 8 October 2008) inspired a major push to promote awareness of Leukaemia in the United Kingdom's black community when, as a child, his mother and stepfather launched a search for suitable bone marrow donors and a charity.
Daniel, born In Hammersmith London, but raised in the London Borough of Croydon, was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1993 at the age of six. Daniel was put on a 2 year course of chemotherapy which he completed in March 1995. But after being in remission for just 9 months, he relapsed in December 1995, when a routine blood test revealed leukaemia cells again. With no assurance that a second course of chemotherapy would be successful his mother, Beverley De Gale, sought a bone marrow transplant for Daniel.
Daniel's chances of finding a match within the UK were as low as 1 in 250,000 as there were only 550 African, African Caribbean, and people of mixed parentage on the UK register. Beverley and her partner, Orin Lewis, set up the...
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