A young cancer patient's impassioned plea for people to register as bone marrow donors on Facebook has triggered an overwhelming response.

Pamela Bou Sejean, 26, may look a picture of health, but she is battling an aggressive form of Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

She urgently needs a bone marrow transplant, but can't find a compatible donor.

As Pamela puts it, she is living on borrowed time and is now pleading for people to come forward to be blood tested for a possible match.

"They have pretty much told me this is the only chance for a cure so I haven't asked them anything about what time I've got or anything like that, I get a bit scared about the answer," Pamela told 7News.

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Out of desperation, her brother Matt took to Facebook and set up the group 'How you can help cure Pamela'.

There he talks about his sister's battle with the disease and details how you can be tested for a possible blood stem cell match.

Mr Bou Sejean who, like the rest of the family, does not match with his sister said: "This is pretty much the last straw, we haven't got anything else to hope for."

Pamela added: "We think it will reach the most amount of people in the quickest amount of time, which is what we need."

The response to the page has been overwhelming, attracting more than 1,000 followers.

Since Pamela started making her pleas, the Red Cross says phone inquiries about joining the bone marrow register have tripled.

Pamela's online search for a cure could potentially save hundreds of other peoples' lives.

Her former work colleague Rohan was among those inspired by the campaign and put himself forward for a test.



"That was the thing that prompted me to say go in and do it now," he told 7News.

"Whenever you're in a situation as bad as this, anything that's slightly positive makes you feel you're on top of the world," Pamela said.

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Anyone could be a stem cell match for Pamela, but people of Lebanese background are more likely to be a match as she is of Lebanese descent.

"Sometimes I stop and think I can't believe this is happening to me," Pamela said.

"I'd just like get back to doing normal things again, you take it for granted until it's taken away from you. You wish you had those small problems again.

"You feel like your whole life is cancer and you get reminded of it all the time.

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