Liam O'Brien: Liam's lifesaving list – a campaign to save a life that changed an industry

The O'Brien Family and BCM Group created The Lifesaving List to raise awareness about the state of the Stem Cell Register, encourage an increase in stem cell donations, pressure the government to make changes to how the register is supported, and help Liam O'Brien find a stem cell match to save his life.

Executive summary

Liam O'Brien, a young father of two was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer in 2022. Like all blood cancer patients, his only chance for a cure was a stem cell transplant. But Australia's Stem Cell Register was dying. Stem cell donations had been in constant decline for years. This was largely due to a lack of public awareness around the need for donations and the fact that simple mechanisms to find stem cell matches were not approved in Australia. Specifically, the use of cheek swabs to find potential donors.

To help, we created a grassroots...

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