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...With bone marrow transplants, it sounds like a really invasive procedure” Gerson said...
...Harvard Cancer Society (HCS) and the Asian-American Brotherhood (AAB) kicked off their two-day Minority Bone Marrow Registration Drive yesterday...
Over 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases each year, but only 20 percent of registered donors are minorities, according to the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP...
Volunteers from both HCS and AAB gathered in the Loker Commons Green Room with representatives from the New England Marrow Donor Program (NEMDP), one of NMDP’s 93 donor centers, where they answered questions from students and encouraged visitors to register as potential donors...
...were in critical condition at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last week, not expected to survive...The ten Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight specialists...Bone-marrow transplants, which were conducted on Chernobyl survivors, are not being considered. Radiation can destroy the vital marrow, which produces among other things the white blood cells that help the body guard against infection, but some of the Goiania victims are so radioactive that new bone marrow would simply become contaminated...