Word: bone-marrow
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...illegal in the U.S. to buy or sell human organs, there may still be reason for concern. Take, for example, a new "Life for a Life" bill introduced last month in the Missouri state legislature. It would allow prisoners on death row to exchange a kidney or bone-marrow transplant for a sentence of life without parole. Although doctors have attacked the bill on moral grounds, arguing that a choice between death or transplantation is never free, defense attorneys have called it "fascinating." Strictly speaking, of course, the prisoners wouldn't be selling their organs. But they would be buying...
...rare disease might be curable, said Mathews-Ross, with treatment of bone-marrow cells, which "is not cheap...
...Bone-marrow transplantation is often the last hope for people with devastating diseases: leukemia and other cancers, and certain genetic disorders of the blood, immune system or metabolism. Cure rates range from 20% to 80%, depending on the disease, its stage and the degree of compatibility between the donor's marrow and the recipient...
...recipient, the process begins with massive doses of chemotherapy or radiation, or both, to wipe out the disease. But that treatment kills the patient's bone-marrow cells as well. Without this spongy tissue at the core of many larger bones, a person cannot live. Marrow contains the precious stem cells that produce all the body's 30,000 trillion red blood cells, many of its infection-fighting white cells and the platelets that are essential for clotting...
...American Bone Marrow Donor Registry, based in Worcester, Mass., and the National Marrow Donor Program in Minneapolis, Minn., keep computer files on about 4.4 million people worldwide who have volunteered as donors. The odds of finding a matching donor average about 1 in 20,000--better for whites, tougher for others. An estimated 30,000 bone-marrow transplants are performed each year worldwide. But it is estimated that 60,000 others needing transplants die without ever finding a donor...