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24 year old Kevin Kararwa was diagnosed with acute leukaemia in April 2012. Despite receiving intensive chemotherapy and a worldwide search on his behalf by the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust for a matching bone marrow donor, his leukaemia has returned.

Doctors informed him last Friday, 9th May, that there is nothing more they can do. Like Stephen Sutton, who also died recently after raising 3 million, Kevin also feels strongly that the fight for life must continue.

Kevin has a simple wish, for 2,400 people, which is 100 people for each year of his life, to join the UK bone marrow register now and to give other people diagnosed with blood cancer a fighting chance for life.

In this extract taken from 91Èȱ¬ WM’s Chatback, Joe Aldred and Nikki Tapper talked to Kevin’s mother, Veronica Kararwa, about when the family first found out he had Leukaemia…