WKYT |
Local cancer survivors push for more donor registrants
WKYT “They searched the registry. Then in January and I had a perfect unrelated match,” Coleman said. Almost a year after he was diagnosed, Coleman got the bone marrow transplant he needed. “I was just like ‘Wow I can’t even. it’s indescribable’,” Coleman said. |
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Transplant survivors meet donors for first time at City of Hope’s 41st Annual Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion
PR Newswire (press release) DUARTE, Calif., April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — When Sergio Ramirez came to City of Hope in early 2013, the acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) he thought he had overcome after three years of treatment had just returned, stronger. A biopsy revealed that … |
Third Sector |
Fundraising Regulator ‘should oversee online donation platforms’
Third Sector Concerns have been raised about pages for unrelated causes on similar websites. But Clarke told Third Sector the task of monitoring the legitimacy of such pages should fall to the Fundraising Regulator, even though the platforms themselves are run by … |
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CMS Needs to Address Medicare Underfunding in 2017 Hospital Inpatient Rule for Bone Marrow Transplantation
AJMC.com Managed Markets Network Only 30% of patients have a perfect match among their siblings; in the past, the best outcomes for others were managed through transplant using an unrelated adult donor or with umbilical cord blood. With the growth of the world’s adult donor registries … |
DKMS Creates Celebrity Driven #Castingforahero CampaignYahoo FinanceDKMS, the international non-profit leading the fight against blood cancer, teamed with the film industry and launched #CastingforaHero, a campaign designed to …and more &ra…
Yahoo Finance |
Transplant Survivors Meet Donors for First Time at City of Hope’s …
Yahoo Finance Los Angeles resident Sergio Ramirez (center, pictured here with his family) will meet his donor at City of Hope’s Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion on Friday, … |
Business Wire (press release) |
Transplant Survivors Meet Donors for First Time at City of Hope’s 41st Annual Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion
Business Wire (press release) Rancho Cucamonga resident Evan Braggs, 32, is also elated to meet his donor at this year’s BMT reunion. It’s long overdue – Braggs received his transplant in 2005. He was 20 years old and battling a devastating blood disease, aplastic anemia. The … |
Wyoming Business Report |
Cheyenne’s Day of Giving provides an opportunity to save a life
Wyoming Business Report The odds are worse for minorities, since bone marrow type is based partly on ethnic background – while Caucasians can find an unrelated donor 75 percent of the time, the percentage drops to the 40s for Hispanic and Asian patients, and 25 percent for … |
Star2.comNew hope with haplo-identical bone marrow transplantStar2.comShe adds that studies have shown that the risk of severe GvHD is similar for haplo-identical transplants and sibling-matched transplants, which are both lower than transplants from a…
Vancouver Sun |
‘It’s a big ask’: Hundreds of kidney donors needed in BC
Vancouver Sun In 2015, 44 per cent of living kidney donors were biologically related to the recipients, 43 per cent were unrelated, and 13 per cent were part of kidney paired exchange donations, which are kidney swaps that occur when a living donor is incompatible … |