Bride-to-be has 60 days to find her fianc a stem cell donor

She said: Our friends and family in London and Bristol have rallied around, asking what they can do to help, and already at least twenty of them joined the Anthony Nolan donor register straight away.

Any one of them could be a match for someone like Mike who needs a donor. It's so easy and straightforward to sign up.

We started thinking that if we channel our energies into getting our friends, and friends of friends, and even strangers, to join the register, we could make a big difference.

Mr Brandon proposed to Miss Robertson, 31, three weeks before she headed off on a six-month backpacking trip at the start of the year.

Just two months later he started suffering from fatigue and night sweats.

He visited the doctor who carried out blood tests and within four hours he learnt he had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Miss Robertson, a physiotherapist from Bristol, received the devastating news in a phone call from Mr Brandon when she was 5000 miles from home in Burma.

She immediately flew home to be at his side.

"I had been due to go on a three week trek in Nepal the following day, so if the news had come a day later, Mike wouldn't have been able to reach me for weeks, Miss Robertson said.

Thankfully I got the message in time and after a grueling ten hour bus journey, twelve hour wait in Yangon, two eleven hour flights and a three hour car journey I was finally by his side.

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Bride-to-be has 60 days to find her fianc a stem cell donor