THE youngest of four Romsey brothers to go through lifesaving treatment to cure him of a genetic condition is acclimatising to weeks of isolation.

Luke Hartley, pictured, seven, began a course of chemotherapy last Saturday and yesterday went into a small isolation room ahead of receiving a bone marrow transplant from his brother Nathan next Wednesday.

All four Hartley brothers were diagnosed with the potentially fatal X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome in November 2003. Since then Joshua, 15, Nathan, 13, and Daniel, 11, have all had bone marrow transplants as this is the only cure for the condition, which leaves sufferers with no immunity against illnesses such as glandular fever and cancer of the blood.