Word: bone-marrow
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...disease was 30 months, and indeed, his initial round of conventional chemotherapy was unsuccessful. But in a coincidence that was both ironic and edifying, CellPro scientists were experimenting with a new way to boost the success rate of the very operation recommended for this type of cancer: a bone-marrow transplant...
Groups like Brown's have lobbied for a multiracial category on government forms, but they also point out that recognizing multiracialism is more than just a matter of "psychic comfort." There are important health issues, for example, such as bone-marrow matching and how such race-specific syndromes as Tay-Sachs manifest themselves and get treated in biracial individuals. And most multiracial Americans have had the experience of being arbitrarily assigned an ethnic identity by a school principal, a caseworker or an employer that may differ from other family members'--or from one form to the next...
...they also want to take better care of patients. Prying more money out of HMOs for treatment is one way. Another is to insist that HMO contracts let doctors make all the decisions on treatment rather than allowing "M.B.A.s phoning from the back of their limos to cancel bone-marrow transplants for breast-cancer patients," as one medical researcher puts...
...Those fortunate enough to survive a BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT may face another problem later: an extremely high risk of developing a new tumor in the brain, liver or elsewhere. These tumors may be caused by the treatments with high doses of radiation that transplant patients require...
...always, it's a varied one. Over here are the Midwestern parents who have flown in specially to see if the lab can make them an exact copy of their six-year-old daughter, recently found to be suffering from leukemia so aggressive that only a bone-marrow transplant can save her. The problem is finding a compatible donor. If, by reproductive happenstance, the girl had been born an identical twin, her matching sister could have produced all the marrow she needed. But nature didn't provide her with a twin, and now the cloning lab will try. In nine...