Adams Pointe to host bone marrow registry driveHerald-WhigJohnson is currently undergoing chemotherapy and will be receiving a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor as her next step in treatment. Those not able to attend may join online. A swa…
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Selena Gomez looks a picture of health on film set hours after revealing she underwent secret kidney transplant in …
Daily Mail Parents and children have a 50 per cent chance of matching, unrelated donors are much less likely. But it is possible to have a perfect match if the recipient has a common HLA type. Crossmatching is done multiple times throughout the transplant process. Selena Gomez on Instagram: “I’m very aware some of my fans had noticed I was laying low for part of the summer and …Instagram |
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Young Professional From Hyderabad Meets the 7-year-old Recipient of his Blood Stem Cells Through DATRI
PR Newswire India (press release) DATRI, India’s largest adult unrelated Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry, today organized a very special and emotional event. Chaitanya, a 32-year-old young IT professional working in Hyderabad, met the 7-year-old Yoka Sarvesh from Dindugal, whose life … |
Life Science DailyGrant award earmarked for severe aplastic anemia researchLife Science DailyPulsipher, who currently has a pilot study underway to determine the feasibility of comparing outcomes of patients initially treated with immunosuppression com…
RotoExperts (subscription)FNTSY Sports Network Partners with DKMS to Save More LivesRotoExperts (subscription)According to DKMS, while 30 percent find a matching donor within their families, 70 percent of patients must rely on an unrelated stranger who…
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‘To hear not one person was suitable match was awful’ says blood disorder sufferer
Gazette Live The 29-year-old underwent bouts of treatment which proved unsuccessful and he was told his best hope of a long term cure would be a unrelated donor. But Shaun was left stunned when he discovered that there was not a single match on the Anthony Nolan … |
Mehdi Hamadani, MD: How I Manage HCT in FLClinical Oncology NewsWe consider allo-HCT in carefully selected individuals (with an available HLA-matched sibling or unrelated donor and no significant medical comorbidities), especially later in the disease …
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FDA Suspends UCART123 Trials After Patient Death
Immuno-Oncology News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended two Phase 1 trials assessing Cellectis’ CAR T-cell therapy UCART123 in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) after the first patient died. |
Clinical Oncology NewsHow I Manage: Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Follicular LymphomaClinical Oncology NewsWe consider allo-HCT in carefully selected individuals (with an available HLA-matched sibling or unrelated donor and no significant medic…
EurekAlert (press release)CHLA awarded $1.3 million by NIH for Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation ConsortiumEurekAlert (press release)The grant also provides support for an innovative clinical trial that seeks to compare outcomes for young pati…