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...sort of became the prostrate pinup boy of Washington, D.C. I didn't talk about politics; I talked about prostrates." --Prostrate cancer patient and former United States Senator Bob Dole (R,-KS) discussing his effort to alert men to the dangers of his disease on "Larry King Live...
...When a patient is looking for a donor, his best possible chance to find a suitable donor is through his own ethnic community," she said...
Donation involves the extraction of bone marrow from the hip while the patient is under general or local anesthesia. Donors can go home after a few hours or rest in the hospital overnight. In a healthy individual, the body replaces the lost marrow, leaving no permanent damage...
While a white patient has an 81 percent chance of finding a marrow match, an American Indian has a 75 percent, an Hispanic a 64 percent chance, an Asian a 55 percent chance and an African-American only a 47 percent chance of a match, Belvin said...
Many senior career switchers are out to change the world as well. Merlin Petzold, 63, a retired General Motors engineer in Cascade Township, Mich., builds user-friendly telephones for people with disabilities. Inspired by his wife Nadine, a multiple-sclerosis patient, Petzold fitted out a standard phone with straws and tubes that allow users to puff for a dial tone and sip in order to dial a preset number, such as 911. Petzold's nonprofit company, Envirotrol, builds as many as 70 such phones a year for customers in the U.S. and as far away as Peru and Saudi Arabia...