Nelson teenager Brodie Seelen is no stranger to a challenge.  At 16-years-old he made history as the youngest athlete to compete in the Coast-to-Coast endurance race, only to...

Southland leukaemia survivor Cameron Parkinson was busy planning his 21st birthday party when a shock cancer diagnosis turned his world upside down. “I’d been feeling really...

Defying the odds comes naturally to local Greymouth legend Josh Komen. Having already survived leukaemia – twice – he’s now setting his sights on a new challenge in the hope of...

When Josh Komen gets asked how he is his eyes light up and his smile triples in size. “I’m thriving… because I should be dead, I should be dead more than once and here I am...

It’s a privilege and delight to announce our five Haematology Prize winners for 2021 and 2022. Part of the mission of the Bone Marrow Cancer Research Trust is to support the...

More than a decade since his diagnosis, two-time leukaemia survivor Josh Komen is pledging to ‘give back’ to those who were there for him during his darkest days.  The former...

Edith Molyneux is more than a housekeeper at Rānui House. She is Rānui’s very own Christmas angel. For more than 14 years, Edith has been looking after the 26-apartments at Rānui...

Two Christchurch volunteers have been gifted a new title to recognise a lifetime of dedicated service, which has seen thousands of Kiwis provided a home-away-from-home when...

On a Friday night in March 2022, Melise Tilley was told she had leukaemia. Four days later she was on a plane leaving her home in Golden Bay for Christchurch Hospital. “I went to...