Wilson undergoes transplant on Thursday

Will be in Halifax until mid-January

Rod Wilsons cancer fight will come to a conclusion in a Halifax hospital on Thursday.

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Rod Wilson will undergo his stem cell transplant in Halifax on Thursday.

HALIFAX Rod Wilsons cancer fight will come to a conclusion in a Halifax hospital on Thursday.

The 41-year-old Amherst resident will undergo a stem cell transplant, ending an ordeal that began during the summer when he learned his non-Hodgkins lymphoma had returned.

It has definitely been a long road and Im praying for a successful operation, Wilson said.

In preparation for the procedure, Wilson arrived in Halifax last week and underwent blood work, checkups and chemotherapy while he has also begun taking anti-rejection drugs.

Wilson knows this transplant wont be as easy as the last one and theres a greater risk of rejection since the last time his own bone marrow was injected. He also knows that theres a one-in-three chance the transplant wont work.

Having gone through this before I sort of know what to expect, but the downside of this is theres a higher risk. The first time it was my own cells so there was no possibility of the body rejecting it, he said. This time its much more complicated and the fact Ive had the procedure before makes it even more complicated.

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