A BROTHER has flown across the world to donate stem cells to help save his sister after she was given just two years to live.
Colin Gwilliam, 56, travelled from Wellington, New Zealand, to Leeds after he was found as a perfect tissue match for sibling Jenny, who needed a stem cell transplant for blood cancer.
Jenny, 57, from near Malton, North Yorkshire, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in April.
She explained: "My life was upended when I was told I had AML. I was numb with shock. I had no symptoms at all and suddenly I was being told I had two options:
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