Jack Grealish donates £5k to 20-year-old's leukaemia fight

Manchester City and England footballer Jack Grealish has donated £5,000 to assistance wage for a man's leukaemia attraction successful America.

Dylan Lamb, 20, from Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, was precocious told his crab had returned and helium has possibly months to live.

Friends and household are aiming to rise £1m to get him to the United States for imaginable treatment.

Mr Lamb's parent said Grealish's enactment had been tremendous for him.

Kim Veitch said: "When you're told by your advisor that you've got weeks possibly months to unrecorded it takes a batch to support him upbeat and this is conscionable tremendous to him."

She said helium was "blown away" by each the enactment helium had been given.

Mr Lamb was 19 and successful his archetypal twelvemonth of assemblage erstwhile helium recovered retired helium had leukaemia.

When helium was fixed the quality the crab had returned, helium was told helium needed a further stem compartment transplant.

But his household said helium indispensable archetypal get into remission and for that helium needs CAR-T attraction which is not presently disposable for his property radical successful the UK, but which tin beryllium paid for arsenic a objective proceedings successful the United States.

The NHS said CAR-T attraction involves altering immune cells successful a laboratory to connect to and termination crab cells.

He's a cardinal subordinate of our radical each of america lads we're similar a household and nary of america could bash beingness without him," Mr Trevelyan said.

The donation from Jack Grealish meant a lot, helium said, due to the fact that astir of their radical were shot fans and they were "all flooded by emotion" to spot idiosyncratic "who is truthful engaged has taken clip retired of their time to help".

So far, the entreaty has raised adjacent to £150,000.