Firefighters Plea for Young Son Can you Help Tommy Simpson is a 4-year old boy...

Published: 10:13 am February 16, 2016
Updated: 4:46 am October 8, 2025
Firefighters Plea For Young Son  Can You Help

Firefighters Plea for Young Son Can you Help

Tommy Simpson is a 4-year old boy who loves nothing more than playing with his toy aeroplanes and putting on his Dad’s uniform, pretending to be a firefighter. In January 2016 he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML), after being admitted to hospital a few days before Christmas. He has been in hospital ever since. This week, Tommy’s parents London Firefighter Nigel Simpson, 48, and Maxine Francis, 45, have launched an urgent appeal to find Tommy a potential lifesaving stem cell donor; in the event his imminent test results reveal he will require an unrelated stem cell (bone marrow) donor to save his life.   Tommy’s mixed heritage makes it extremely hard to find a donor as matching stem cell tissue types are inherited. Mixed race, making Tommy’s chances of finding an unrelated donor extremely difficult.

http:///aclt.org/join-the-stem-cell-register/

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