Dad battles to beat cancer for eighth time.A DETERMINED dad who is fighting cancer for the eighth time has undergone a bone marrow transplant bone marrow transplant: see bone marrow. . Tony Ferguson has been battling cancer since 1995 and is now praying a bone marrow transplant will once and for all rid him of Hodgkin's Lymphoma Hodgkin's lymphoma, also known as Hodgkin's disease, is a type of lymphoma first described by Thomas Hodgkin in 1832. Hodgkin's lymphoma is characterized clinically by the orderly spread of disease from one lymph node group to another and by the development of systemic . The father of two went through the procedure last week but now has an anxious wait to see if his body accepts the new bone marrow bone marrow, soft tissue filling the spongy interiors of animal bones. Red marrow is the principal organ that forms blood cells in mammals, including humans (see blood). In children, the bones contain only red marrow. . Determined to beat the killer disease, Tony has already told his wife he wants to be back home with his family this month. His wife Christine, of Ryton, Gateshead, said: "This is it, there's no going back now. He's being very positive and doctors say 'so far, so good'. "Different people respond to transplants in very different ways but he wants to be home by the end of October. "It will take about two weeks for the good cells to latch onto where they should be." Without surgery, doctors warned Tony he may not live to the end of the year. |
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