After two years of waiting, six-year-old Lincoln Honoway finally met the woman who saved his life.

A Regina boy who has been looking for a rare match for a bone marrow transplant has found one after years of searching.

In a Facebook post published Friday, the Mance family called the news a “Christmas miracle.”

The stem cell donation process – while slightly more involved and more time consuming – looks and feels a lot like donating blood.

On Saturday, volunteers manned tables at the Foundry Room for the United Asia event, a stem cell swab drive organized by the One Love Event.

Three Edmonton sisters are hoping someone, somewhere, of Asian descent can save their brother Bille Nguyen.

By 5:00 p.m. on Saturday the drive had already collected more swabs than any other single event in Canada.

The massive push to find an Edmonton boy with leukemia a stem cell match was a success.

Tammy McLash, an Alberta mother diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, finally had her stem cell transplant.

Daljit Sanders is 28 years old and is living with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. As a South Asian woman she thought she was going to die due to the lack of suitable donors on the registry.