Posts Tagged ‘bone marrow transplants’
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Cancer Therapy
James P. Allison of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research…
Read MoreMy Experience as a Bone Marrow Donor – Part 2
My sister had been fighting leukemia for five years, and the time had finally come for me to attempt to help cure her cancer. The night before and…
Read MoreMy Experience as a Bone Marrow Donor – Part 1
In 2007 my older sister Jonell was diagnosed with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia during her senior year of college. CML is a type of blood cancer that can settle…
Read MoreThe Bone Marrow Registry and Why Diversity Matters
With every passing 120 seconds a person in the U.S. is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Many people look to the National Bone Marrow Registry when in need of a…
Read MoreLearn a Little – How to Find a Perfect Match
We talk about getting “matches” for leukemia patients, but what exactly is a match? Every person has a blood type (think A+, O-, etc.), and when we get a blood…
Read MoreWords of Hope: The RSV Challenge
February 2009 Recovery into the beginning of January had been very promising. My blood counts were on the rise and my body was acclimatizing to Isabel’s bone marrow. I was…
Read MoreWords of Hope – Graph vs. Host
January 5th 2009 So we rolled over into my second year of treatment. To summarize at this point, I spent the beginning of 2008 sick with headaches resulting from an…
Read MoreWords of Hope: A Delicate Balance II
December 18th, 2008 Today, I was released from prison. Not that I don’t appreciate Johns Hopkins, but when you are hooked up to IV all day, everyday, for 35 days…
Read MoreWords of Hope – Transplant!
Nov. 18th, 2008: Today, I had a bone marrow transplant. It would prove to be the solution for a very big problem, an Acute Leukemia diagnosis. The road to the…
Read MoreWord's of Hope – No Hope
Towards the end of the October I was writing about my donor being lost due to bronchitis and my liver starting to fail on top of three intensive rounds of…
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