The 5-year-old Lia (right) from Siegen urgently needs a stem cell donor – the DKMS and her parents have launched an online registration campaign. Twin sister Ella is unfortunately out of the question.
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“Zwilling sucht Zwilling” is the urgent appeal to save the life of a 5-year-old. Because Lia from Siegen (North Rhine-Westphalia) has blood cancer.
Siegen / NRW – The lively twins from Wins in North Rhine-Westphalia are actually inseparable. Actually – because Lia is now separated from her sister Ella in the hospital. The 5 year old suffers blood cancer. Now is looking for DKMS together with their parents the genetic twin, one Stem cell donor for Lia.
| Nonprofit organization | DKMS |
| founder | Peter Harf |
| founding | 1991 |
| legal form | profit company |
| Seat | Tubingen, Germany |
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Lia still has many dreams, after all she still has her whole Life in front of you. For example, she can’t wait to start school soon. Lia already has a clear idea of what her first satchel should look like: a horse should be on it. Because she wants to learn to ride soon.
Blood cancer: Who can help Lia (5) from Siegen (North Rhine-Westphalia) with a stem cell donation?
In addition to the love of horses, she sings, does handicrafts and plays Lia gladly together with her twin sister Ella and her friends. Lia always has a joke on her lips – now she’s been fighting in the for weeks hospital for their lives. She is according to the Internet portal We win separated for the first time from her twin sister Ella and also from her brother Ben.
Lia is on blood cancer ill. This cancer is a collective term for various malignant diseases of the hematopoietic system, in which blood cells degenerate and multiply in an uncontrolled manner. According to DKMS there are many different forms of blood cancer with different courses and symptoms. To the possible Symptoms Examples include fever, weight loss, fatigue, spontaneous bleeding, swollen lymph nodes, paleness and sometimes broken bones.
Eleven-year-old Kilian from the Olpe district is also urgently looking for a stem cell donation. He suffers from one rare genetic defect, which not only caused painful abscesses on the skin and lungs, but also ensured that the boy was already 21 Operations had to get over with.
DKMS explains: This is how you can become a donor – “quickly and easily”
- Anyone who is healthy and between 17 and 55 years old can find out about with just a few clicks www.dkms.de/lia order the registration documents to your home.
- With the help of three medical cotton swabs and instructions as well as a declaration of consent, anyone can take a cheek swab themselves after receiving the set and then send it back by post.
- Donors who have already registered in the past do not have to participate again. Once recorded, data will continue to be available to patients around the world.
- The cotton swabs should be returned promptly after the cheek swab. Only when the tissue characteristics have been determined in the laboratory are donors available for the worldwide search.
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There is always good news. Like Paulina. The girl (1) from Iserlohn has found a suitable stem cell donor. Over 2,000 people responded to the DKMS register. Paulinas Schicksal moved people far beyond the borders of the Märkisches Kreis. CDU-Generalsekretär Paul Ziemak advertised on his homepage with a video for the support of the life-threatening ill one-year-old girl. The Iserlohn Roosters hosted an entire game day in the name of the little Iserlohn woman, Mayor Joithe (who has already donated stem cells himself) stood up, as did the Iserlohn presenter and actor Thore Schölermann and many other companies, associations, organizations and individuals.
Celebrities are committed to DKMS Life – including Stefanie Giesinger and Palina Rojinski
DKMS Life also wants to raise awareness of the topic with a special campaign Krebs create. The celebrities Stefanie Giesinger and Palina Rojinski should help as brand ambassadors. You want to encourage affected women. DKMS Life is an independent subsidiary of DKMSwho are fighting blood cancer has prescribed.
They also help out loud DKMS also Donate money in the process of saving lives, as the DKMS incurs costs of 35 euros for each new donor, as the non-profit organization reports. The account data: DKMS donation account, Kreissparkasse Tübingen, IBAN: DE64 6415 0020 0000 2555 56, BIC: SOLADES1TUB, purpose: LPS 858.
Die DKMS
According to its own information, the DKMS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the fight against blood cancer. “Our goal is to give as many patients as possible a second chance in life. We are the world leader in the supply of life-saving stem cell transplants to patients, ”it says. In addition to Germany, DKMS is active in the USA, Poland, UK, Chile, India and South Africa. Together, according to their own information, registered more than 10 million “life donors”. In addition, DKMS conducts scientific research and sets standards in its laboratory, the DKMS Life Science Lab, for typing new stem cell donors, as reported.
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