Search Tags:  leukemia

Bone marrow registry event set for Saturday

At any given time, about 6,000 patients among the more than 30,000 diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases such as leukemia are seeking what amounts to their best and sometimes only hope for survival-- a bone marrow or blood stem cell donation, according to the National Institutes of Health's Blood Donor Program.

Tags: Mount Airy , National Institutes of Health , bone marrow ,

Comment

Walkersville student picked as Woman of Tomorrow

At 7 Emily Brooke Zimmerman had leukemia. She often spoke to angry teenagers who had cancer. Now in remission, she says she wants to grow up to help children in hospitals.

Tags: Emily Zimmerman , Walkersville , Maryland Commission for Women , Johns Hopkins Children's Center , cancer

Comment

Doctors find match for boy in need of transplant

The family of a 4-year-old boy in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant may have some good news.

Tags: Devan Tatlow , Indira Lakshmanan , National Bone Marrow Donor Program , Tanya Snyder

Comment

Boy, 4, desperately needs bone marrow transplant

The family of a 4-year-old boy with acute promyelocytic leukemia has 11 weeks to find a donor who will be a match for a bone marrow transplant.

Tags: Devan Tatlow , Indira Lakshmanan , bone marrow , National Bone Marrow Donor Program , Tanya Snyder , Colleen Kelleher

Comment