Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RECOVERING. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former Massachusetts Senator and 1992 presidential candidate; from a bone-marrow transplant, his second, to treat cancer-therapy complications; in Boston. The donor was his twin sister Thaleia Schlesinger...
DIED. MICHELLE CAREW, 18, daughter of baseball great Rod Carew; of leukemia; in Orange County, California. The search for bone-marrow donors turned her father into an advocate for transplant candidates, and her plight drew national attention to minority and biracial patients...
HOSPITALIZED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, ex-Oval Office seeker; for a bone-marrow transplant from his sister to fight infections brought on by his lymph cancer, now in remission; in Boston...
...realization that I had prostate cancer," he recalls. "I'd gotten over the 'Why me?' and spoken to a number of friends who had had successful surgery. That's where I was going to make my stand." Now what? Searching for an answer, he scheduled a bone-marrow test at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to determine if the cancer had spread to his bones. If it had, his life expectancy would be measured in months, and he was hardly sanguine about the outcome. "I had not been successful in one test I'd taken," he recalls. "Every test...
YOUR STORY OMITTED MANY RELEVANT points, but one stands out. TIME painted bone-marrow transplantation as a managed-care issue. It is not. It was and is an issue for everyone in health care. Our response to this issue, which we gave to you but which failed to make it into the article, is as follows: A panel of transplant physicians, drawn from California's finest medical centers, created and continuously reviews guidelines for bone-marrow transplants. Since 1994, any case that does not meet criteria for approval and is appealed is automatically referred for outside review to the Medical...