Linda Sellar was sent for tests by a doctor after she also began to experience breathlessness and picked up infections.
Following blood tests and a bone marrow biopsy, she learned she had acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), the most common type of leukaemia. After the diagnosis in 2019, Linda did not think she would live to enjoy her retirement.
Every year, almost 3,100 people in the UK are diagnosed with AML, yet survival rates are among the worst of any cancer type. Just 13.6% of people survive longer than five years after their diagnosis.
However after two rounds of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant using donor cells from her son, Jack, the former civil servant is now in remission.
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