Junus needs special stem cells to treat his leukemia: ‘Searching for needle in haystack’ | Healthy

Leukemia? Most people know little about this type of blood cancer. That also applied to Chantal Malaihollo from Krimpen aan den IJssel. It was revealed that the stem cells in her athletic husband’s bone marrow no longer turned into blood cells on their own because his condition was deteriorating. The diagnosis hit like a bomb. “And now that the disease has returned, the shock is even greater than it was two years ago,” she says.