Stem cell transplant: Cancer patient meets life-saving donor

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Ivan Godfrey-Davis and railway worker Mark Jones meet for the first time.

A retired journalist who was told he had just days to live has met the stem cell donor who saved his life.

Ivor Godfrey-Davis, from Andover in Hampshire, met Mark Jones, a 54-year-old railway worker from Witham, Essex, at the DKMS charity offices in London."We are genetic twins," he told Mr Jones.Image caption,Mr Godfrey-Davis said he was given as little as seven days to live, if his condition was untreated, when he was first diagnosed.Despite having a rare genetic make-up, and there only being two donor matches identified in the world, he received the transplant in August 2015.

DKMS is an international charity treating and supporting people with blood cancers and blood disorders.

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