A TEENAGER who is fighting cancer for the third time has undergone a bone marrow transplant.

Maisie Bulmer, from Salton, was admitted to St James’s Hospital in Leeds for six days of intense chemotherapy before she received the bone marrow last Wednesday.

Her mum, Wendy, said: "The transplant itself only took about an hour and we are now waiting for Maisie to recover as she is very tired and is sleeping most of the time. Although we are relieved it is over there is still a long road ahead of us."

In October, the 18-year-old suffered a setback after three possible donors were found to be unsuitable only days before a planned transplant. However, a donor, a 38-year-old German man, was later found.

Maisie was diagnosed with cancer in May 2014, aged 16, when she found a walnut-sized lump in her neck. After a biopsy at York Hospital she was told she had B-Cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She finished chemotherapy that October, but was told on Christmas Eve 2014 the cancer had returned.

After further treatment, in April this year, she was told the cancer had come back.