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JIM ARNOLD: Diagnosis changed everything but my name
Kennebec Journal Then, on traveling to Boston to meet with my oncologist there, I find out I also have an even rarer condition: a genetic disorder called chromosome deletion 17p, which will reduce the effectiveness of my stem-cell transplant. I’m sure you understand … |
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Students look for scholarships in some unusual places
STLtoday.com “For some scholarships, you have to be African-American or Indian. … For some, you have …. He won about a dozen, including a $3,000 first prize from the Done Vida campaign for a two-minute video he produced to promote organ donation. The biggest … |
Message of love in the snowCTV NewsDad is Al Carpenter. The 49-year-old is fighting for his life, diagnosed recently with a rare form of leukemia. He is in need of a stem cell transplant and has not yet found a match among the world-wide database of re…
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Tyler Seddon, whose fight against cancer drew law enforcement support, gets …
Boston.com … Seddon, who has been battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia for about four years, has found two umbilical cord blood matches. Tyler’s mother, Rachel Seddon, is hoping this will make for a successful stem cell transplant, the next step in her son’s … |
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Spring Grove native competes to be ‘Man of the Year’
Spring Grove Herald Oakes was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in June of 2012 and underwent multiple rounds of chemotherapy. In September of 2012, Oakes had a stem cell transplant and spent 30 days in the hospital. Fortunately, his brother was a match and willing to … |
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SLU’s Kick It for a Cause in Canton Saturday to benefit family of 12-year-old …
North Country Now Originally diagnosed in 2009 while he was in second grade, Zachary’s cancer was treated with chemotherapy radiation surgery and a stem cell transplant. Since then, he and his parents, Becky and Bill Hamilton, have been traveling to New York City and … |
Kamada starts POC study of Glassia to treat GVHDPharmaceutical Business ReviewThe POC study is a Phase I/II trial of 24 patients with steroid-resistant GVHD following allogeneic bone-marrow stem cell transplant who will receive six to ten doses of intr…
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Maarten van der Weijden: A look inside the mind of an Olympic Champion
Olympic Suddenly engaged in a battle for his life rather than for medals, he underwent a successful stem cell transplant, and jubilantly returned to the water two years later. The Alkmaar-born swimmer’s sense of ambition was not in the slightest dampened … |
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Benefit set for Markey Cancer Research Foundation
Insurance News Net (press release) She said because of insurance she was unable to get her stem-cell transplant there because the cost would have been $50,000 . She was referred to the Markey Cancer Center in Lexington , where she obtained the treatment she needed. “This is about giving … |
Chemotherapy-free treatment a possibility for leukemia/lymphomaOncology Nurse AdvisorCurrent therapies, such as chemotherapy, intensive chemo-immunotherapy (chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy) or stem cell transplant are effective but due to the …