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Marrow drive at Pequannock Township High School

Written by NorthJersey.com
Thursday, 02 September 2010
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MichaelPEQUANNOCK – A bone marrow testing drive is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Pequannock Township High School (85 Sunset Road in Pompton Plains) for Michael Coppola, who is battling leukemia for the second time in three years.The testing is simple and painless, consisting…

Blacks Face Bone Marrow Donor Shortage

Written by Habiba Nosheen, NPR
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
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marrow-1Video: Jennifer Jones Austin Needs A Bone Marrow Transplant Bone marrow transplants are often the only treatment for blood-related cancers. The treatment, however, is dependent on the patient finding a donor who shares a similar genetic makeup. In most cases, that means the match is found in …

Leukemia Lymphoma Society Recognizes Area Residents

Written by NorthJersey.com
Monday, 12 July 2010
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PQlocksbefore_0708_st_tif_It’s called a miracle pill for cancer. Traci Fox, a Pequannock Township High School sophomore, takes two dosages of this new type of chemo daily and goes off to play PTHS softball, without a complaint over her lymphoma. She saved two lives last year, her dad Tim Fox says, by registering bone marrow …
The Carnival of Love Foundation will be sponsoring a Bone Marrow Drive at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on 74th Street, next Tuesday, April 27, from 5 -8pm.Many individuals of Greek descent are battling terminal cancers, blood disorders, autoimmune conditions and other life-threatening diseases …

A Lonely Search for Life-Saving Cells

Written by Althea A. Fung, TheBrooklynInc.com
Friday, 19 February 2010
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jenny_coste_ulanga1More than 100,000 Americans find out each year that they have a life-threatening disease, like leukemia, requiring  a bone marrow transplant.About 30 percent of the patients in need of a transplant find a match within their families. But the thousands of patients who can’t find donors within th…

Funds are Needed to Add More Life-Saving Bone Marrow Donors

Written by Airam da Silva
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
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GoalThe Icla da Silva Foundation, the largest Recruitment Center for the Be the Match Registry, has added over 37,000 new donors in 2009.  The goal for 2010 is to add 40,000 new life-saving marrow donors to the Be the Match Registry but financial support is needed.   Click here to make a …

Hope, chemo - & match: Ailing Brooklyn mom keeps faith bone marrow donor will be found in time

Written by Mike Jaccarino, New York Daily News
Saturday, 06 February 2010
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Jennifer Jones Austin is still clinging to life - and hope. The Brooklyn mother suffering from leukemia is hanging on to the possibility that someone out there - somewhere - is a match for a bone-marrow transplant. "I wake up a lot at different hours of the night and sometimes, I have a hard time …

New Yorkers, you have what it takes to save a life

Written by Errol Louis, New York Daily News
Saturday, 06 February 2010
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Help me save Jennifer Jones Austin's life. Jennifer, a senior United Way executive and mother of two young kids, is battling leukemia and needs a bone-marrow transplant. But she hasn't found a suitable matching donor. That's where you come in. On any given day, 6,000 people need bone marrow to he…

Stillman Hosts Bone Marrow Drive

Written by Kim Garner, wvua-tv
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
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Stillman College along with the Icla Da Silva Foundation hosted a bone marrow drive, "Be the Match," on campus Tuesday. The drive is to assit in finding a bone marrow match for Jennifer Jones Austin, a 41-year-old wife and mother of two children, who is suffering from Leukemia. Tuesday's event also …

Bone marrow donors sought in battle to save man’s life

Written by by Sara Hottman, Staff Writer, robesonian.com
Saturday, 30 January 2010
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0128_bone_marrowsmallPEMBROKE — Doug Oxendine has been suffering from leukemia for just more than two years, and now he needs a bone marrow donor to save his life. But as an American Indian, his chances of finding one are low — one in 100.Beginning Friday, the Icla da Silva Foundation is hosting three public donor drive…
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