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Samuel R. Cross ’07 urgently needs a bone marrow transplant, and fellow students, House masters, and his fencing coach are now trying to find a donor...
Cross, co-captain of the varsity men’s fencing team, was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a rare, fast-growing, and highly malignant form of the disease in which an individual’s bone marrow produces cells that fail to develop into normal red or white blood cells. Cross has already undergone two rounds of chemotherapy but still needs a bone marrow transplant, according to Cross’ teammates and friends...
According to e-mails sent over House lists about Cross, there are no more than 10 possible matches for the 21-year-old in the world bone marrow registry, and whether those donors would fully match Cross or be willing to donate is uncertain. Because bone marrow type is likely to be shared within populations, Cross, of Korean and Western European descent, is most likely to find a match among Asian and European donors...
...reached for e-mail comment yesterday afternoon, Pfoho House master and Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy confirmed that Bok sent an e-mail to other house masters through the office of the Dean of the College asking them to pass information about registering to donate marrow to students in their houses...
...dead man in the Highgate Cemetery started feeling ill on Nov. 1. The London doctors who attended Litvinenko's bedside quickly suspected that some kind of radioactive agent was causing his decline. His hair was falling out, his athlete's body was shriveling, his bone marrow was failing, just as if he had been one of the firemen called to the burning reactor at Chernobyl. But gamma spectrometers found nothing unusual in his blood or urine. As doctors ruled out a slew of increasingly obscure toxins and bugs, the patient's condition worsened. In desperation, the police sent his urine...