Many people don’t realise that children with cancer can receive large amounts of blood products from donors as an essential part of their treatment.
Josh, 11, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in February 2018, at the Cancer Centre for Children, and subsequently received 109 blood transfusions and 285 platelet transfusions. To let donors know how important their potentially life-saving contributions are, he visited Red Cross Lifeblood donor centres to say thanks.
At a donor centre at Richmond Air Force Base, which is part of the Defence Blood Challenge, Josh and his father Wing Commander Peter Miller were interviewed about the integral role of blood products in his treatment.