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A proposal for improving cord blood transplants
11/13/09 Roughly one in five hematopoietic stem cell transplants performed to treat blood disorders such as leukemia uses cord blood instead of the traditional bone marrow. Cord blood – harvested from...
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Father turns tragedy into hope through cord blood bank
1/4/10 NEW HAVEN — Ted Collins is a seasoned cancer researcher with plenty of money and connections to the best doctors anywhere, but none of it could save his 26-year-old daughter Natasha from...
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First Successful Use of Expanded Umbilical-Cord Blood Units to Treat Leukemia
1/19/10 ScienceDaily (Jan. 18, 2010) — Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have cleared a major technical hurdle to making umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used method...
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Major Advance in Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants at the Hutch
1/20/10 The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has taken a big stride forward in umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant, thanks to the work of Dr. Colleen Delaney in pediatric oncology (two of...
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Stem cell surgery saved Waynesboro girl’s life
1/22/10 Stem cell transplants have been used since the 1970s to save the lives of cancer victims and children with inherited disorders of the immune systems. One fortunate 3-year old in Waynesboro is...
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Banking a little piece of mind
2/10/10 Chantal Wong still remembers seeing the email at work. A colleague was seeking potential bone marrow donors for their sick child. What made their case especially challenging was the parents...
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Cancer survivor credits life to ‘awesome recycling program’
3/10/10 Boston Heights — “I am the living, breathing end product of the most awesome recycling program on the face of the earth,” says leukemia survivor Diana Tirpak. The Boston Heights resident, who...
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Man HIV-Free After Stem-Cell Transplant
05/01/10 In what could be promising news for the treatment of HIV in the near future, an HIV-positive patient is now HIV-free after a successful stem-cell transplant. Last November, doctors in Berlin,...
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Siona’s Story: Community hope for a girl with leukemia
05/03/10 MERCER ISLAND, Wash. – Five years old and a princess, at least to her family, Siona Shah rarely goes anywhere without at least one of her stuffed animals. This time, at the Mercer Island...
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B’way star from Bellerose undergoes blood transplant
08/30/10 An 11-year-old Bellerose girl who starred in the Broadway hit “The Lion King” as the young Nala underwent a successful umbilical cord blood transplant last week to treat her leukemia, a family...
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