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Charity Golf Challenge for FM
06/09/2002
First Minister Jack McConnell will take part in a
charity golf tournament at Gleneagles in Perthshire on
Monday.
The 4th Scottish Golf Challenge, sponsored by the Bank
of Scotland, is organised by the Anthony Nolan Trust, a
major player in the fight against leukaemia.
The charity which needs £12 million a year to run its
research institute.
In advance of the golf, Mr McConnell met two Scots who
have benefited from the activities of the trust.
James McLay, 39, known as Jacop, from Kinglassie in
Fife, (above left) was diagnosed with Non-Hodkinson's
Lymphona in March and, since no family match could be
found, the trust's database of unrelated donors is being
used to find a tissue match so he can undergo a blood stem
cell transplant.
Lindsay Steele, 35, from Crawfordjohn near Biggar,
(above right) was first diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphona
in 1996. He received one stem cell transplant at that time
and, after a relapse, another transplant in April this
year.
The
Anthony Nolan Trust was founded by Shirley Nolan during
the 1970s when her son Anthony developed leukaemia and
required a life-saving transplant of bone marrow.
Discovering their was no donors' register, she set one up,
but Anthony died aged seven in 1978. Shirley Nolan died
earlier this year.
The Trust changed its name from The Anthony Nolan Bone
Marrow Trust in December last year to reflect the changing
nature of transplantation.