A TEENAGER who is fighting cancer for the third time is one step closer to beating the disease.

Maisie Bulmer, from Salton, underwent a bone marrow transplant at St James’s Hospital in Leeds in December.

Last week tests revealed the transplant had been successful. However, further scans still need to be carried out.

The 19-year-old also needs kidney dialysis three times a week, as well as check-ups in Leeds each Wednesday.

Maisie said: “I was very relieved and the consultant was also very pleased with the results. However, it doesn’t mean I am fully clear and there are scans still to do.

“I could still relapse over the next two years, but at the moment the transplant is working and I am one step closer to beating cancer.”

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 in 2014 the cancer had returned.

After further treatment in April last year, she was told the cancer had come back for a third time.

Last October, Maisie 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.