# Twenty-three-year-old University of the Western Cape student Jeanet Mokoena has given a leukaemia patient in the United States a fighting chance at life. The Linguistics Honours student donated her stem cells through the DKMS, an international organisation dedicated to fighting blood cancer and other blood disorders, by helping patients find matching stem cell donors. Mokoena says her desire to help another person outweighed her fear of undergoing an unfamiliar procedure:
A UWC student gives a US leukaemia patient a fighting chance by donating her stem cells [SOUND]
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