Word: leukemias
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Former Dunster House resident Alan J. Kuo '85 is dying of leukemia; he may have as little as one month to live if doctors do not find an exact match to his bone marrow. Last week, Kuo's tragedy was brought to light on Harvard's campus, due to a two-day bone marrow drive sponsored by friends of Kuo and the Chinese Students Association...
...minutes later in a baggy blue hospital gown and the inevitable plastic bracelet. Suddenly, she looks vulnerable. This morning Majewski is scheduled to undergo a bone-marrow harvest, in which doctors will remove about a quart of her marrow to be transplanted into a young patient dying of leukemia. She has never met the patient, who lives in Europe. They do not even know each other's names. They have been brought together by a computer search, by the quirk of a few shared genetic traits and, above all, by Majewski's kindness and courage, her willingness to endure...
...Fuller Brush Man and A Southern Yankee, but it was his TV sketches, his Mean Widdle Kid and Freddie the Freeloader, that made giddy audiences squeal--for mercy and for more. Skelton, too, often dissolved into giggles at his own antics, even after his son died of leukemia in 1958. Then he laughed louder, once saying, "A clown is a warrior who fights gloom...
...thrilled at the fantastic turnout from the Harvard Community and we hope that it continues through the end of the drive," Young said. "The more people that register the more likely it is that someone will match Alan or someone else dying from Leukemia and save their life...
...said Alan recently moved from the chronic stage of leukemia to its acute stage, which means the patient only has one or two months left to live...