Teen forever grateful after leukaemia all-clear

Seb was 15 when he was told he had leukaemia

A teenager given the all-clear from blood cancer says he will be forever in debt to the NHS doctors and nurses who cared for him, and the man who saved his life by donating his bone marrow.

Seb was 15 when he was told he had leukaemia two years ago. Now, 14 months after his bone marrow transplant, he said it was "great news" to be told he is free of the disease.

The teenager, from St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, was given bone marrow from a man in Germany.

His mother Kristin said: "We knew that he was doing really well because he's had blood tests every six weeks, but it was just great to hear that on a molecular level there was no trace of this leukaemia at all."

Seb's mother said it was great to hear he was free of the disease

Seb said: "I'm super blessed. I wouldn't be here right now if I didn't get a match and I'm so lucky to have all the nurses and doctors and all the NHS behind me saving my life every day."

He said he would "forever be in debt" to those who had helped him.

"I won't be able to pay it back. All I can really do is say thank you," he added.

Several of Seb's classmates and some teachers shaved their hair in a show of support ahead of his chemotherapy treatment in 2023.

His early symptoms were extreme tiredness and repeatedly waking up covered in sweat.

His mother took him to hospital when he woke up one morning "drenched in sweat" and hallucinating.

"I took him to A&E on Friday morning, half past seven – by half past one we had a diagnosis. They were amazing," she previously said.