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...years ago, Stauffer's older brother Matt, a varsity soccer player at Williams College, with leukemia. It has been an up-and-down battle ever since, but on June 24, Matt relapsed for the second time, forcing Emily, who is Matt's only bone marrow match, to make a decision-one which she never thought she would have to make...
Despite donating her bone marrow the summer after her sophomore year, Emily was able to continue her soccer training all the while spending quality time with Matt, who was slowly approaching his second period of remission. When the decision arrived as to whether Emily would return to Harvard for her junior year, Matt had already progressed to the point where he too was making return plans to college...
Entering the summer, the 1997 season held the promise of a dreamier ending, namely another Ivy title run through the NCAA tournament. Now, with First Team All-America forward Emily Stauffer taking the year off following a bone marrow transplant to her brother, Matt, who has leukemia (see full story in Friday's Crimson), this team's challenge is to prove that last season was not a one woman show...
Entering the summer, the 1997 season held the promise of a dreamier ending, namely another Ivy title run through the NCAA tournament. Now, with First Team All-America forward Emily Stauffer taking the year off following a bone marrow transplant to her brother, Matt, who has leukemia (see full story in Friday's Crimson), this team's challenge is to prove that last season was not a one woman show...
...much in 1990, and since then the U.S. has paid $67 million to 1,338 of the "downwinders," many of whom live in Utah and believe their exposure to radiation caused leukemia and other ailments. An apparent victim was former Utah Governor Scott Matheson, who died of bone-marrow cancer a week before Bush's admission...