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A desperate family who had just three weeks to find a stem cell donor for their toddler found a match in Singapore. See SWNS story SWMDappeal. Four-year-old Esha Nadeswaran was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in May of this year, and spent 15 weeks at Great Ormond Street Hospital. After two cycles of chemotherapy which proved to be sadly been ineffective, the family appealed online to find a donor from the South Asian Community - a heavily underrepresented ethnicity on the donor registry. Since September, the family of Esha have been organising drop-in testing events around the country to help find a matching donor. But now, after months of campaigning, the family have announced they have found a matching in donor in Singapore. Esha, from London, is due to have her life-saving transplant next week, after a period of pre-transplant intensive conditioning chemotherapy.