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Both my father and uncle had acute leukemia three years ago. Their brothers went in for a check, but were not a match for stem cell transplants. Luckily, for both there was a match with a random stranger who went through the effort to donate their stem cells such as what happened in this blog post.

I can absolutely recommend everyone to register as a stem cell donor. Thanks to these random matches my father lives on.

As a random fun fact: he got to write one letter to the donor, who got to write one letter back. You never get their contact details, and don't even know in which country they live. Needless to say, tears were shed over the short letter conversation back and forth.